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By BETHANY BLANKLEY THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden on Saturday signed bipartisan gun control legislation meant to take guns out of the hands of individuals deemed a threat, though critics say that’s a violation of due process rights. The measure also imposes more thorough background checks on buyers under the age of 21.

It does not include a ban on AR-15-style weapons or limit the number of bullets in magazines.

“While this bill doesn’t do everything I want, it does

include actions I’ve long called for that are going to save lives,” President Biden said when signing the measure Saturday.

“Today, we say more than ‘enough.’ We say more than enough. This time, when it seems impossible to get anything done in Washington, we are doing something consequential.”

The U.S. House passed the Safer Communities Act Friday by a vote of 234-193 after the Senate passed it Thursday night by a vote of 65-33.

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The La Boheme dance group makes its way up Santa Barbara Street in downtown Santa Barbara during the Summer Solstice Parade on Saturday.

The sun itself turned out to help Santa Barbara welcome summer.

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Summer Solstice Parade and Celebration returned to Santa Barbara this weekend for the first time since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The two-day celebration took place on Friday and Saturday with the pinnacle of the celebration being the parade, which took place at noon on Saturday.

A full lineup of popular local and internationally known bands played at the 48th Summer Solstice Celebration 2022 Festival. All the concerts took place in Alameda Park on Friday from 4-9 p.m. and Saturday from 12-9 p.m. Friday night performances included: Queentide, Mashugana, The Framers, Glenn Annie and Rey Fresco.

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(The Center Square) – A federal appeals court on Friday granted a request for a temporary stay to vape manufacturer Juul Labs Inc. in its fight against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ban of its e-cigarettes from being sold in the U.S. The FDA issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) Thursday and said JUUL’s current inventory being sold in the U.S. “must be removed, or risk enforcement action.”

Shortly thereafter, Joe Murillo, chief regulatory officer at Juul Labs, told The Center Square, “We intend to seek a stay and are exploring all of our options under the FDA’s regulations and the law, including appealing the decision and engaging with our regulator. We remain committed to doing all in our power to continue serving the millions of American adult smokers

who have successfully used our products to transition away from combustible cigarettes, which remain available on market shelves nationwide.”

A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday granted the company’s request to delay the FDA’s ban, which gives the court time to hear arguments. In their order, the judges wrote the temporary stay wasn’t a ruling on the merits of the case.

The FDA banned from the market a JUUL vaping device and four types of pods: Virginia tobacco flavored pods at nicotine concentrations of 5.0% and 3.0% and menthol flavored pods at nicotine concentrations of 5.0% and 3.0%.

FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D., said the products made up “a significant part of the available products and many have played a disproportionate role in the rise in youth vaping.”

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D.C. intrigue: New world disorder and the 50 years since Watergate

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PUTRID PUTIN’S PLAN Now back to SPIEF and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s own “New World Order,” which, as usual with this messianic megalomaniac, is his way of taking another whack at the West — his personal pastime when not gleefully supervising the murder, mayhem and rape going on in Ukraine at the hands of his less enthusiastic, sacrificial troops.

The tyrant vows that this “special operation” will lead to his very own “new world order.”

“It is erroneous that one can sit and wait when the time of turbulent changes goes by,” he announced to his forum in St. Petersburg, which lasted four days and hosted 13,500 dignitaries from 141 countries including China, whose president, Xi Jinping, delivered a speech via video. (So much for global unity against Mr. Putin’s Ukraine misadventure.)

This ruthless Russian dictator took the opportunity to accuse the European Union of “dancing to someone else’s tune.” He was referring, of course, to the United States, which, he believes, is calling the shots against his wicked war, a stance derived from his disappointment at not being able to drive an early wedge between NATO and European Union countries. But, more likely, he is mocking the globalists, trying to steal their thunder along with their tagline.

Mr. Putin claims that the Western power elite “clings to shadows of the past” and that their “divorce from reality… will inevitably lead to deep degradation in Europe, leading to the replacement of current elites.”

Judging by the disorderliness to which we have evolved since the Trilateral Commission was formed 50 years ago, coupled with Vladimir Putin’s poisonous, imperialistic ambitions, it looks as though both sides of this “Alice in Wonderland” looking glass have conjured up little more than a New World DISORDER.

WATERGATED Soon after Trilateral Commission members disassembled from Washington a fortnight ago, there was much hullabaloo in our nation’s capital due to the 50th anniversary of Watergate, that is, a half-century since the botched burglary at the Watergate complex, whose coverup led, ultimately, to the first (and thus far only) presidential resignation in U.S. history.

The question that still vexes Washington Post sleuth Robert Woodward, a question he posed at a symposium held at his newspaper to commemorate the occasion, was this: WHY? As in, why did President Richard Nixon, on the cusp of easy victory to re-election, risk everything in an illegal attempt to gain access to whatever might have been locked up in Democratic National Committee files?

One could suggest Mr. Nixon was paranoid; that he believed his enemies were out to get him (they were, which is normal in politics, but in his case, it was more intense); and wanted to know what dirt they had on him.

He knew (and so does everyone now) that the 1960 presidential election was stolen out from under him by votes emanating from Chicago’s cemeteries as orchestrated by Joe Kennedy waving a baton at his Prohibition pals in the mafia. Earlier, Joe pulled strings in West Virginia to clinch the Democratic nomination for his son.

Mr. Nixon knew the truth — and gracefully let it go. But it had made him rather sensitive to Kennedy campaign tactics and strategy.

And he became irrationally convinced that another Kennedy — Ted — would announce his candidacy and beat him in ’72 despite Chappaquiddick, where 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne

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lost her life, drowning in a car the U.S. senator from Massachusetts abandoned late one night in July 1969 after taking a wrong turn, skidding off a one-lane bridge and landing in the drink.

Yet half-a-century later, if the “why” still vexes Bob Woodward, a highly astute and committed student of Washington intrigue, there must have been something going on far more murky than mere paranoia, which, from Mr. Nixon’s perspective was somewhat justified.

A product of Whittier, Calif., Mr. Nixon never signed onto the Eastern Establishment, whose members felt entitled to ownership rights over foreign policy—and U.S. policy in general.

(President Lyndon Johnson, half a decade earlier, had not signed on either, but LBJ’s concession was retaining “the best and the brightest” — JFK’s so-called crowd of Harvard intellectuals — to steer his presidency, though, their escalation of the Vietnam War might more aptly designate them “the worst and the dimmest.”)

In his quest for intelligence that might aid his imagined campaign against Teddy, President Nixon had already dispatched his snarling Rottweilers — H.R. “Bob” Haldeman and John Ehrlichman — on a fishing expedition to Langley, try to hook what CIA files on the Kennedy administration’s attempts to assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro (an operation still hush-hush back then — along with assassinations in general — having been hatched when Mr. Nixon was vice president under President Dwight Eisenhower and inherited by JFK).

Moreover, Mr. Nixon was convinced that DNC Chairman Lawrence O’Brien had information about bribes paid to himself and his younger brother, Donald, by reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes, who had been trying for several years to quash

the Atomic Energy Commission’s underground nuclear testing in Nevada (where he lived) due to (valid) concerns about radioactive contamination.

When news reached President Nixon about what Larry O’Brien possessed, he may well have panicked, leading to irrational behavior — and rendering him easy prey for a trap.

HANK AND THE PRATT HOUSE CROWD Enter Henry Kissinger, assigned to the White House (through New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller) by what Mr. Nixon called “the Pratt House crowd,” to keep the Nixon White House in check and, as national security adviser (back then a lowly position that Dr. K elevated to the stratosphere), shape foreign policy, especially after he became secretary of state.

(Pratt House, in New York City, is home to the Council on Foreign Relations, a private entity that has been referred to as “the brain trust of the establishment.”)

Dr. Kissinger, who privately referred to his boss as “the meatball mind” and “that madman,” fed Mr. Nixon’s madness and paranoia, He also insisted that, in the interest of national security, White House leaks must be plugged, whatever laws might be broken in the process.

Hence, at Henry’s direction, a “Plumber’s Unit” was created under John Ehrlichman (run by an operative who liaised between Dr. K and Mr. Ehrlichman) to investigate and patch their leaky pipes. Enter E. Howard Hunt (exCIA), G. Gordon Liddy (ex-FBI), Frank Sturgis (ex-CIA asset) and James McCord (ex-CIA official likely reporting back to CIA) — and their team of Cubans (exCIA assets) who had assisted with another rogue operation nine years earlier.

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With approval from “the highest political and financial circles” (internal Trilateral Commission memo), Mr. Rockefeller and Dr. Brzezinski set out to recruit members. Many came from the secure ranks of Bilderberg. But this pair also felt courageous enough to reach out of their power-broking network and boldly invite a peanut farmer and Georgia governor named Jimmy Carter, who would, three years later, “arise from nowhere” (as power elite appointees often do). In this case, “arising from nowhere” involved David and Zbig and their pals (with a potful of presidential campaign money), who plotted to launch their New World Order from inside the White House.

Although President Carter did indeed fill his cabinet almost entirely of Trilateral Commission members including Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal (while self-seeking Zbig became national security adviser), it was Mr. Carter’s “Georgia Boys”— Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell and Stu Eizenstat — who ran the executive branch and, by extension, the country.

As CIA founding member Miles Copeland, an old boy from Alabama, told us at the time, the elderly cabinet members would hem and haw while these youngsters from Georgia (all three in their early 30s) kept the globalists at arm’s length and determined policy amongst themselves.

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ack in the mid1970s, the Trilateral Commission, a private international thinktank (and an arm of the power elite), was the first to conceive the phrase “New World Order.”

It became the hallmark of its agenda, albeit for internal deliberation only, not public consumption. Which meant that critics outside their bailiwick who dared utter the words “new world order” were immediately dubbed “conspiracy theorists.”

Fast forward 50 years later, On the heels of the Trilateral Commission’s meeting in Washington, D.C., just two weekends ago, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin introduced his own “New World Order” at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an entity he created in 2005 under presidential authority — i.e., his own.

For readers unfamiliar with the Trilateral Commission: It was born from a Bilderberg Meeting after its core “steering committee” members determined the time had arrived for Japan’s elite, having attained status as an industrial powerhouse, to merge with the elites of the United States and Western Europe.

So, what is Bilderberg, you may ask? Answer: A precious group of global manipulators who have been meeting privately since 1954 to quietly influence governments and who, from behind the scenes, brought about the European Union.)

A relatively unknown Columbia University professor of Russian studies named Zbigniew Brzezinski was invited to attend Bilderberg in 1972 (Knokke, Belgium) by his patron, Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, so that Zbig could introduce his “Tripartite Studies,” which proposed that Japanese business titans and their cherrypicked politicians be welcomed into the mix.

The burghers of bilateral Bilderberg nixed that idea.

Instead, they favored creating a whole new entity: The Trilateral Commission — three spheres instead of two — whose objective was to quietly guide, through its influential membership, foreign and economic policies of their own making.

It was the beginning of what we now call “globalism.”

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Rockefeller had his revenge by arranging for the ailing Shah of Iran to come to the United States for medical treatment, which led to the Iran hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.)

Add soaring inflation plus interest rates at 20% and that, in a (pea)nutshell, folks, is why Mr. Carter lasted only one term, replaced in the White House eight years later by another Trilateral Commissioner, George H. W. Bush, who not only implemented the Commission’s New World Order but also publicly announced it as such, declaring that the 1991 Persian Gulf War wasn’t about “one small country but a big idea, a NEW WORLD ORDER.” Surprise, surprise.

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TRAFFIC, CRIME AND FIRE BLOTTER Man seriously injured in collision A 30-year-old man was transported to Marian Regional Medical Center with major trauma resulting from a vehicle vs. pedestrian collision on northbound Highway 101 in Santa Maria on Friday around 4 p.m.

The accident occurred when a car traveling northbound on Highway 101 struck a man just south of Santa Maria Way. The condition of the victim and the cause of the accident are unknown, reported Santa Barbara County Fire Department PIO Scott Safechuck in a Friday tweet.

Northbound lanes were temporarily closed but were reopened by 5:30 p.m.

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Construction update Closures Drivers are encouraged to drive safely through the corridor and remember to Slow for the Cone Zone. The speed limit is reduced to 55 mph for safety throughout the construction areas. Two freeway lanes remain open in each direction during daytime hours.

Northbound Highway 101 Sunday nights from 9 p.m. - 7 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Bailard Ave. to Sheffield Dr. with on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Linden Ave., Santa

Monica Rd. and N. Padaro Ln. Monday - Thursday nights from 8 p.m. – 7 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Bailard Ave. to Sheffield Dr. with on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Linden Ave., Santa Monica Rd. and N. Padaro Ln. The northbound on-ramp at Ortega Hill Rd. will be closed for up to eight months and is anticipated to reopen Feb 14. Drivers can use the on-ramp at Sheffield Dr. The off-ramp at Sheffield Dr. will be closed for up to six months, and is anticipated to reopen Oct. 3. Drivers can use the off-ramp at San Ysidro Rd. Flaggers are assisting during the morning peak periods at the San Ysidro Rd. intersections with Highway 101.

Southbound Highway 101 Sunday nights from 10 p.m. - 7 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Sheffield Dr. to Bailard Ave. with on- and off-ramps at Carpinteria Ave., Reynolds Ave., Linden Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Bailard Ave. and N. Padaro Ln. Monday - Thursday nights from 8 p.m.

– 7:30 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Sheffield Dr. to Bailard Ave. with on- and off-ramps at Carpinteria Ave., Reynolds Ave., Linden Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Bailard Ave. and N. Padaro Ln. The off-ramp at Evans Ave. will be closed for up to nine months and is anticipated to reopen Oct. 24. Drivers can use the southbound offramp at Sheffield Dr. The off-ramp at S. Padaro Ln./Santa Claus Ln. will be closed for up to seven months and is anticipated to reopen Oct. 19, drivers can use the off-ramp at Carpinteria Ave. to Santa Ynez Ave., Via Real, and S. Padaro Ln.

Ortega Hill Bike Path Flaggers will direct bicyclists as needed while crews set up temporary safety barriers.

The bike path will remain open, but users can expect short delays during safety barrier installation. After safety barriers are installed, crews will work on the freeway side of the bike path.

N. Jameson Ln. by Sheffield Dr. June 27 - July 1 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., flaggers will direct traffic on N. Jameson Ln. by the northbound on-ramp at Sheffield Dr. to allow crews to remove temporary safety barriers and fencing. Driver are reminded to be mindful of sharing the lane with bicyclists during this time.

On S. Padaro Ln. under Highway 101, June 26 - 30, Sunday - Thursday nights, from 9 p.m.

- 6 a.m., night closures to allow crews to begin work on the underside of the new bridge.

Drivers can use a detour on N. Padaro Ln. and Via Real. Driver are reminded that trucks over 40’ will not be able to turn right onto S. Padaro Ln. from Santa Claus Ln. during this stage of bridge construction.

On Via Real by Carpinteria Creek, June 27, flaggers will direct traffic as needed to allow crews to pave as part of the emergency repair work to fix damage caused by the February storm drain fire.

Consecutive ramps in the same direction will not be closed at the same time (unless where noted) to allow drivers to use a ramp before or after a closure. To view timelines, detours and maps, visit www.SBROADS.comn and select the project segment.

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Santa Barbara County Citizen’s Academy accepting applications

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications for the upcoming Citizen’s Academy. The Citizen’s Academy is an engaging and informational behind-the-scenes look at law enforcement in Santa Barbara, hosted by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office.

The participants will engage in various topics including the

history of law enforcement, criminal law, patrol tactics and deescalation communication. They will also participate in handson learning such as firearms instruction and active shooter scenarios. Participants must be 18 years of age or older.

Academy training sessions will be held on Monday nights, from 6-9 p.m., beginning July 11 and continuing through August 22. Participants must be able to attend all sessions. There will be

one Saturday morning session held on August 27 for a graduation ceremony and celebratory BBQ. Classes will be held at various locations throughout Southern Santa Barbara County.

Those wishing to participate can turn in applications in one of the following ways: • In-person drop off at Sheriff’s Headquarters at 4434 Calle Real, Santa Barbara; • In-person drop off at Isla Vista

Foot Patrol Station at 6504 Trigo, Isla Vista; • Scan and email applications to Deputy Justin Schroeder at jrs3822@sbsheriff.org.

Those who are interested can read more about the Citizen’s Academy and find the application form on the Sheriff’s Office website: https://www.sbsheriff. org/about-us/community-outreach/ citizens-academy/. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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police reportedly stood by as 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed. Although an investigation is ongoing, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw recently said the Uvalde’s police response “was an abject failure” and they could have stopped the shooter within three minutes if they had done their jobs.

“From Columbine to Sandy Hook to Charleston, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, El Paso, Atlanta, Buffalo, Uvalde and for the shootings that happen every day in the streets, how many times have you heard that, ‘just do something, for God’s sake just do something’?” President Biden said. “Today, we did.”

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, RTexas, led a bipartisan group in the Senate to push through the gun control bill, arguing it “will save lives while placing no new restrictions on law-abiding gun owners.”

But Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who introduced a different bill, the Safe Kids, Safe Schools, Safe Communities Act, said what Sen. Cornyn supported won’t stop violent crime or make schools safer, but will restrict law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

A solution to actually improve school safety would have been to pass his bill, Sen. Cruz said, which “goes after criminals and supports law enforcement while protecting

the Second Amendment.”

Every time there’s a mass shooting, Sen. Cruz said, there’s a reaction in Washington, D.C., to restrict lawful gun owners’ constitutionally protected rights.

There are two approaches to addressing violence, he said.

The first is to “target the bad guys,” including criminals, felons, fugitives, those illegally buying guns, and those committing violent crimes with firearms, he said.

“Prosecute them, put them in jail, get them off the street,” the Texas senator said, which is what his bill proposed.

Sen. Cruz’ bill would have devoted resources to prosecuting criminals and to doubling the number of police officers in schools, provisions the bills Congress passed don’t include.

The second approach “is to target law abiding citizens,” he said. “To try to strip away the right to keep and bear arms. …

Unfortunately, whenever there’s a horrific crime, Democrats immediately go to the second approach,” which he argues is unconstitutional. This time, 29 Republicans joined Democrats in passing the Safer Communities Act. In response to ongoing criticism he’s received, including by Texas conservatives who jeered at him throughout the Texas Republican Party Convention last week in Houston, Sen. Cornyn began tweeting about the bill. He said the bill “DOES NOT create a national red flag law, DOES NOT require or incentivize states to

adopt red flag laws and no state is penalized for not passing one.”

Red flag laws refer to the process allowed in some states whereby “a law enforcement official, family member, or household member petitions a state court to temporarily remove firearms from someone they believe to be a danger to themselves or others. In some states, the list of eligible petitioners can include school officials, health care workers, or even coworkers,” U.S. Law Shield explains.

But the Safer Communities Act would “force states with red flag laws to adopt strict and comprehensive due process before they qualify for funding,” Sen. Cornyn said.

The bill also includes a provision to close a so-called “boyfriend loophole,” which is unrelated to causes of the Uvalde shooting. It includes prohibiting those with a domestic violence record from purchasing a firearm “Unless you are convicted of domestic violence, this will have NO IMPACT on your gun rights,” Cornyn said.

Fourteen House Republicans voted for the bill: Steve Chabot (Ohio), Liz Cheney (Wyo.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Tony Gonzales (Texas), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), Christopher Jacobs (N.Y.), David Joyce (Ohio), John Katko (N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Peter Meijer (Mich.), Tom Rice (S.C.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Michael Turner (Ohio), and Fred Upton (Mich.).

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193 voted against it.

Fifteen Senate Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voted for it: Roy Blunt (Mo.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), John Cornyn (Texas), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rob Portman (Ohio), Mitt Romney (Utah), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), and Todd Young (Ind.).

Two Republicans didn’t vote; 33 voted against it. Sen. Blunt, Sen. Burr, Sen. Toomey and Sen. Portman aren’t running for reelection.

The vote came after the Supreme Court issued the most significant Second Amendment ruling in over a decade, handing a win to the National Rifle Association, which challenged a New York law in NYSRPA v.

Bruen. The court held that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to carry a firearm outside their home.

What the Supreme Court got right, the NRA argues, Congress got wrong.

While it supports “school safety with dedicated resources at the federal level, an investment in better access to, and quality of, mental health care,” the NRA said it won’t support “senseless gun control measures that some in Congress have already said is just a first step that ‘paves the way’ for additional gun control that will only infringe on the rights of the law-abiding.”

Santa Maria Fairpark vaccine clinic closing

By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Santa Maria Fairpark COVID-19 vaccine clinic will close after Wednesday due to significantly decreased use, The location opened over a year ago on May 16, 2021, and has since served the greater Santa Maria community with nearly 20,000 vaccinations.

According to the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, the site has been a critical component of the COVID19 vaccine distribution strategy, The department encourages residents to continue utilizing the Fairpark for first, second and booster doses through the closure date. This site will not be offering vaccines for children under age 5.

The health department encourages families with children under 5 to schedule their COVID-19 vaccine appointments with their medical provider as soon as possible.

“Our partnerships with the state and Optum Serve have been vital in bringing access to these life-saving vaccines to our

north county community,” said Dr. Van Do-Reynoso, the county public health director.

“We highly encourage all community members to stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccination series and take advantage of the last week of the Fairpark,” said Dr. Do-Reynoso, who’s leaving the health department at the end of July for a position with CenCal Health.

Although it will discontinue the vaccination service, Fairpark will continue to host a testing site complete with treatment options available for those who test positive for COVID-19.

Options for vaccinations in Santa Maria will remain available through health care providers and pharmacies.

To find your nearest vaccination site for your primary series or boosters, visit www. vaccines.gov.

For more information regarding COVID-19 response and resources, visit www. publichealthsbc.org or call 2-1-1 for assistance. email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

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Thus began a series of illegal break-ins that foreshadowed Watergate, including the psychiatric practice of Dr. Lewis Fielding to steal his medical file on Daniel Ellsberg, a Pentagon bureaucrat who had blown the whistle on the Vietnam War by exposing “The Pentagon Papers,” which caught the government in multiple lies and failures — and severely embarrassed Dr. K. It may well be that the real objective of the Watergate break-in was for the Plumbers to get caught red-handed, as in, set up by their own superiors. An anonymous telephone call to the on-duty security guard was all it would have taken.

Well, not entirely. It needed a push to launch it from the back pages of The Washington Post to page one. Enter W. Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI, who, as “Deep Throat,” provided Mr. Woodward with tidbits about Nixon campaign slush funds that paled in comparison to those maintained by Lyndon Johnson and others before him.

Mr. Felt had his own personal gripe, believing he should have been chosen to succeed J. Edgar Hoover, who died six weeks before the Watergate burglary, as director of the FBI. In desperation, President Nixon sent new emissaries to Langley to solicit their assistance to counter the onslaught against him. The CIA would not comply and refused to get involved, so Mr. Nixon fired its director, Dick Helms.

In retaliation, the agency found a way,

through Alexander Butterfield, to reveal the existence of a White House tape-recording system, which led to cover-up conversations that, effectively, fired Dick Nixon.

So: Was President Nixon set up and kissed off by Henry the K? It would certainly answer the vexing 50-year-old question Bob Woodward finds so elusive.

A side note: Watergate bequeathed upon society the absurdity of ensuring that every future scandal would be post-fixed with the word “gate” — and that every future secretive source from the inside would be given the moniker “Deep Throat.”

Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail.com.

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Dobbs decision likely to enhance Washington’s abortion haven status

By BRETT DAVIS

The overturning of Roe could mean as many as 230,000 women from Idaho, where abortion access is going to be more limited, may drive to Washington to get an abortion.

THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – Washington state has been an abortion haven since 1970, three years prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision that established the constitutional right to abortion.

If the reaction of the state’s political leadership to Roe’s reversal on Friday morning by the same court in the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling is any indication, that is not likely to change any time soon.

As expected, the court handed down a decision overturning Roe, sending the controversial abortion issue back to the individual states to set their own laws on the practice. The high court’s decision centered on a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks.

Washington state officials were quick to respond to the court’s controversial ruling, hinted at earlier this year when a draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito striking down Roe was published by Politico.

Senate Republican leader Sen. John Braun of Centralia couched his take in terms of calling for better support for pregnant women.

“Today’s decision does not affect the law here in Washington,” he said in a press release. “Even my Democrat colleagues have been quick to point out that our

LARSEN, William Carl

William Carl Larsen passed away peacefully in his home in Santa Barbara on May 29, 2022 surrounded by family who loved him beyond words. “Bill” was born to parents Henry and Edna (Rasmussen) Larsen on a farm in Oaklawn, Illinois in 1930, but his sense of adventure and intense curiosity took him around the world. After studying political science at Knox College in Galesburg, IL and serving in the U.S. Army, Bill went on to work on the beginnings of the Alaska Pipeline where he developed a deep appreciation for nature and a love of the outdoors.

While on a solo trip to Europe after a friend was forced to cancel, he met the love of his life Jacqueline Quintana in Cadiz, Spain and spent the next 10 years there raising a family while also falling in love with the country, the culture, the food…he loved it all and became fluent in Spanish. 1964 brought him to California to be near family and a career in law enforcement, working as a detective for the L.A. County Sheriff, something his entire family is so proud of. He was a gentle soul who always wanted to be of service. His love of travel continued until the end with trips back to Spain, France, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Norway, Israel, New Orleans, Hawaii, Montana, Connecticut, New Orleans… so many places while he was well into his 80s. He leaves behind his soul mate of 65 years, Jacqueline, his daughters Veronica (Doug) Haynie, Babette (Roy) Seaman, grandchildren Nicholas (Anisha) Koepenick, Christian Koepenick, Carolina (Hugh) Montgomery, Gabriella Koepenick, Chloe Seaman, Terence Seaman, Serena Seaman and great-grandchildren Talulah & Kyler Koepenick, Wilhelmina, Hudson & Hollister Montgomery, nieces, nephews, in-laws, friends...and little Wolfie, a rescued Havanese. He was predeceased by his big brother Bryce Larsen. He is terribly missed.

SHIELDS, Bill

On June 18, 2022, Bill Shields, beloved teacher, coach, husband, father, grandfather and friend passed away at the age of 92 years old.

Bill was born July 21, 1930 in Newport, New York. In 1935, his family journeyed west looking for a better life.

They settled in Pasadena, California.

Bill did not have a lot of success as a Pasadena High School basketball player, so he decided he wanted to try amateur boxing. He was trained by the legendary blind boxing coach, Canto Robledo, in Robeledo’s backyard gym in Pasadena. During Bill’s boxing tenure, he competed in both lightweight and welterweight division tournaments.

Bill won weight division championships in 4 tournaments.

He was a finalist in every boxing tournament he entered!

Bill was also awarded the Golden Gloves of Pasadena.

During the Korean War, he was drafted into the Army in 1951. He served in General Ridgway’s Honor Guard, stationed in Tokyo, Japan. While there, he continued his boxing career as a member of the Army’s boxing team.

When Bill returned from Japan, he used his GI Bill, graduated from UCSB in 1957 and earned a Master’s Degree from USC in 1962. (Bill was a lifelong Trojan fan.

Fight On!). He was hired by the Goleta School District in 1957, where he taught 6th grade at Cathedral Oaks, drove the school bus and developed a boys and girls after school athletic program. He went on to teach at Foothill, Kellogg, Hollister and La Patera Elementary Schools. He organized the Valley Elementary League, where boys and girls teams, coached by fellow teachers and parents, competed against one another on Saturday mornings in Goleta. Bill’s school won championships in flag football, basketball, softball, volleyball and track. After 19 years, when the Valley League was no longer needed, Bill organized and coached noon leagues at Hollister and La Patera schools. What was unique was that these teams were all co-ed. He was truly a visionary coach by promoting girls to participate in competitive sports 15 years before the implementation of Title IX. His young athletes remember his love of sports and his caring attitude toward athletes and students of every ability level. Sportsmanship, fair play and citizenship were emphasized in his classrooms and on the field and court.

Bill always said one of the highlights of his life was marrying his fellow teacher at Foothill Elementary School, Diana Grassfield. They enjoyed a marriage of laughs and good times for 40 years before her untimely death in 2006.

Bill was recognized for his coaching and teaching by being inducted into the Santa Barbara Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002. He was also proud of the 3 PTA Honorary Awards presented to him by three different schools.

His lifelong enjoyment of participating in competitive sports led him to play on various championship city and Goleta Boys Club basketball and softball teams. He played tennis into his late eighties.

As Bill always said “All in all, it was a pretty good run.”

laws protect access to abortion procedures.”

In Washington, abortions are more accessible and state law protects a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy any time before the fetus is considered viable, generally about 24 weeks.

“However, better support for pregnant women who choose to give birth should be a common goal for all of us, regardless of our politics,” Sen. Braun continued.

“Compassion and empathy, rather than hostility, should be the universal approach. I’m hoping this is how we all move forward.”

State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s reaction was more strident in pointing out how the decision could impact Washington’s health care system.

“Today the United States Supreme Court adopted an extremist position and overturned 50 years of precedent upon which Americans have relied,” he said in a press release. “This decision will harm individuals across our country by severely restricting access to safe, legal reproductive health care, and it will strain Washington’s health care network as individuals from Idaho and

JACOBS, Jeannine Marie

Jeannine Marie Jacobs passed away peacefully at home on June 5, 2022 after a short illness. Born on November 30, 1940, Jeannine (“J9”) grew up in Lincoln, NE where she attended Lincoln High and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. After graduating from UNL she began her teaching career, was married to Richard Jacobs, and had two beautiful daughters, Susi and Lisa. In 1977 Jeannine relocated to Santa Barbara where she became a Director at Work Training Programs, Inc. She loved Santa Barbara and fully embraced the California spirit, epitomized by the yellow convertible VW bug (with a racing stripe!) that she buzzed around town in. Once her grandbabies started arriving, she moved up to the Bay Area, and settled in Larkspur, CA. She was a constant in her grandsons’ lives and was their #1 fan always! She quickly became a part of the St. Patrick’s Church community and their St. Vincent De Paul volunteers and began working in her “third career,” as an office manager for the periodontal practices of Dr. Barry Wootton and Dr. Ana Amaya in Kentfield, retiring in 2019. In late 2021, Jeannine moved to Clearwater at Sonoma Hills in Rohnert Park, CA. Always ready for a laugh, her yearly holiday letters and the themed pictures of the family were an annual tradition, eagerly anticipated by friends and family alike.

Jeannine is preceded in death by her parents, Daniel and Wanda Fenton, her brother Danny Fenton and her grandson, Evan Lynam. Survived by her adoring brother Jerry Fenton, her daughters Susi (Nick) Lynam and Lisa Jacobs, her grandsons Ryan Holmes, Bobby (Rian) Lynam, Daniel Lynam and Sam Lynam and her greatgranddaughter Harper Evan Lynam, plus a wonderful group of nephews and nieces and their families.

Friends and family are invited to a celebration of Jeannine’s life at St. Patrick’s Church, 114 King Street, Larkspur, CA on Monday, July 11 at 10 a.m. with a reception to follow in the church hall. In honor of Jeannine, we encourage you to wear bright colors as we celebrate her! Per Jeannine’s wishes, memorial donations may be made to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Foundation, in memory of Evan Richard Lynam.

DIEBOLD, Dal Donald

Dal Donald DieBold peacefully entered into eternal rest on June 3rd, 2022 at the age of 89. Dal was born on July 25th, 1932 as the last child of John and Margaret DieBold of Claresholm, Alberta, Canada.

Dal grew up and attended grade school in Claresholm. As a child Dal could be found on the floor with a marble and a ruler playing hockey as he listened to Foster Hewitt’s radio broadcast of NHL Hockey games. Dal’s love of hockey motivated him to develop his skills, where he was seen by scouts and played with the Medicine Hat Tigers, the farm team for the Detroit Red Wings. Trophies for most goals and hat tricks were many and always best sportsmanship plaques were awarded with Dal’s name. Dal played and coached throughout his career in Canada and Southern California. Dal was instrumental in promoting ice hockey in Santa Barbara with the first ice rink on the Mesa in the 1970s. Dal played for the Senior Los Angeles Kings in Anaheim, which led to travel and tournaments throughout California, Canada and Europe.

On July 10, 1957 Dal married his high school sweetheart, Jacklin Barbara Braren in Claresholm where their lives began. Soon two beautiful boys joined the family.

Thomas arrived first in April 1958 and Kenneth followed, March 1960. DaI learned his fine craft of painting under the tutelage of his father J.H. DieBold. In the spring of 1965, Dal and Barbara had the opportunity to move from Claresholm Alberta to Santa Barbara California where Dal was hired as the facilities manager for Encina Royale in Goleta. In December 1965 the family welcomed a baby girl Christie to the fold. The past 65 years of marriage to the love of his life has shown everyone how to be an amazing husband and father.

Catholic faith was a big part of Dal’s life. Raising his three children with Catholic Education from elementary school, at St. Raphael’s through Bishop Garcia Diego High School. Dal served as President of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church Parish Council, and the Bishop Diego Dad’s Club. In his later years, Dal enjoyed his membership in the Knights of Columbus and his Parish Council service at San Roque Catholic Church. Dal was ever delighted to help his son Ken with his flourishing painting business during his retirement years. This gift of his time and talent was a joy Dal experienced right through his life.

Added blessings to Dal’s life were his grandchildren whom he loved and adored. Dal will be deeply missed by his entire family, his sons Thomas DieBold (Diana), Kenneth DieBold (Ann), and daughter Christie Glanville (John). Grandchildren Shelby Antes (Drew), Jackie DieBold, Meaghan DieBold, Matthew DieBold, Dylan DieBold, and James Glanville.

Dal was predeceased by his parents John (1979) and Margaret (1975) and all his siblings. An infant sister, Dalmane (1922), brothers: Jack (1943), Leonard (1974), Mack (1975), Servin (1993), and sister Betty (2015).

Vigil and Rosary Prayer Service will be held July 13th, 6:30 p.m., at San Roque Catholic Church, Santa Barbara, California. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at San Roque Catholic Church, Thursday, July 14th at 10:30 a.m., Father Bruce Correio presiding.

Bill is survived by his son, Greg Shields of San Diego, Jennifer Frederic (Peter) of Paso Robles, his cherished granddaughters, Vanessa Shields, Jayne Bruno-Ramsay, Carolyn Bruno, Ann Bruno and his bonus grandsons, Jon Frederic and Michael Frederic.

Donations in memory of Dal DieBold are appreciated to Serenity House and the Visiting Nurse Association who cared for Dal and his family. VNA Health Foundation (805) 690-6290 or www.vna.health

A special thank you to Esmeralda Bravo, Bill’s amazing caregiver of the last 3 years.

Even when his memories were robbed by Alzheimer’s disease, he knew she was his friend and a “good gal.” Esmeralda, you will always be an honorary Shields.

The family wishes to thank the many friends and relatives who have shown their love and support with heartfelt messages, cards, prayers, flowers, visits, meals, and generous donations to VNA and Serenity House where Dal was blessed with excellent end of life care. Dal’s family was guided through their grief at Serenity House with compassion; we are grateful and appreciative.

From Greg and Jenny: Our father was a visionary when it came to flag football. He truly believed that children should not be playing tackle football until they were more mature physically and mentally. He adhered to the belief that children should learn the fundamentals of football, to fall in love and respect the sport. He didn’t support children being burdened with the apprehension of the “next big hit.” In lieu of a memorial service, we have established the Bill Shields Scholarship Fund with Santa Barbara Friday Night Lights Youth Flag Football. His legacy will live on for generations on and off the field. If possible, please make a donation to his scholarship so that the children of Santa Barbara can continue his dedication and passion for the game. Thank you. santabarbarafnl.com. https://gofund.me/f4da3826.

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IN MEMORY J. TERRY SCHWARTZ In loving memory of J. Terry Schwartz March 27, 1947 - June 28, 2021 We’re thankful for every moment we had with you.

Your loving family

other states come here seeking the health care they require.”

In late October 2021, the prochoice research organization the Guttmacher Institute predicted a 385% increase in demand for abortion in Washington state based on Roe being overturned.

According to Guttmacher, the overturning of Roe could mean as many as 230,000 women from Idaho, where abortion access is going to be more limited, may drive to Washington to get an abortion.

Mr. Ferguson indicated he would defend the Evergreen State’s status as an abortion sanctuary for out-of-state women seeking the procedure.

“Moreover, I will use my authority to ensure Washington welcomes any individual who comes here to access the fundamental right to reproductive justice,” he said. “I am already working to protect medical professionals who are prosecuted in other states for providing essential health care services that are legal and protected in Washington.”

Washington has a history of abortion rights going back more than 50 years.

LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY

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My sweet beloved Kymani, adventurous traveler, precious loving son.

So deeply loved and greatly missed, I think of you every day. You live on in my heart full of our beautiful memories and of our many adventures traveling the world together.

You also live on in the many lives you saved for the recipients blessed by your organ donation.

Always loved, never forgotten, forever in my heart.

All my love, All my Life, Mom

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Santa Maria 72/53

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Buellton 88/50

Solvang 94/53

Gaviota 78/56

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Wind from the west at 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a southwest swell 2-4 feet at 10-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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Wind northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet; south-southwest swell 3-5 feet at 14 seconds. Visibility under a mile in fog.

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In 1970, Washington voters approved Referendum 20, which established a limited right for women to access abortions, although it required married women to obtain their husband’s permission and minors to get a guardian’s approval to undergo the procedure.

It was the first state to do so.

The Evergreen State was also the setting for a lesser known pre-Roe legal case on abortion featuring a young lawyer who would go on to become a justice on the Supreme Court from 1993 through 2020.

Captain Susan Struck was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who became pregnant while serving in Vietnam in 1970. She was sent to McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, Washington, to have an abortion, which at the time was a requirement for servicewomen to keep their jobs.

Ms. Struck, a Catholic, did not want to get an abortion or resign from the military, setting off a legal battle that was on track to reach the Supreme Court. A lawyer by the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg prepared Ms. Struck’s case to be heard before the nation’s highest court.

The case never made it that far. The U.S. solicitor general persuaded the Air Force to waive Ms. Struck’s discharge and change the pregnancy regulation. The solicitor general filed a motion to dismiss the case as moot.

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment.

Storage 82,752 acre-ft.

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‘It’s amazing to have the festival back’

DJ Darla Bea serves up beats as her float makes its way up Santa Barbara Street in downtown Santa Barbara during the Summer Solstice Parade on Saturday.

Vibrant colors and floats born out of whimsical creative ideas travel up Santa Barbara Street.

SOLSTICE

Continued from Page A1 “It was incredible, it was really, really special - it was huge. The turnout to watch was beyond incredible,” Robin Elander, interim program director for Solstice, told the News-Press.

“People were watching from different restaurants. There was a really significant crowd.

It felt really good going up Santa Barbara street. I think the community was really excited to have the parade back. The participants really enjoyed themselves. Everything really came together and we could not be happier approximately 85,000 attended the parade.”

“The return of Rey Fresco, the headline band on Friday night, was a special moment.

It was nice to see them return after being away for a while.

The lineup of DJs to the mainstage was a unique thing that hadn’t happened in the history of Solstice,” Warner Anderson, festival director, told the News-Press. Mr. Anderson estimated about

A fairy spreads her wings during the parade.

A flower-loving canine, left, and dragon-prowed boat shared space in the parade.

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25,000-30,000 people hit the park following the Parade on Saturday.

Ms. Elander described how it felt to be back in person: “Beyond wonderful. It is just so good to be with the community again … We had a really good turnout. I was pleasantly surprised with how many people came out. I think people were excited to come out after the long break. We had more people come out on a Friday night than I believe we have ever had.”

Saturday’s performances included DJ Macintyre, Audiopool, Paper Idol, Traveler, Noble Grizwald, Uncle Uncle and GrooveShine.

“It’s amazing to have the festival back after being away for a couple years. The energy is amazing. The parade went well with no hiccups. I think people are really excited to have us back after being away.

It’s pretty high energy out here.

There is a great mix of young and old, kids and dogs. The energy is high. I think people are happy we are back. There are lots of smiling faces,” said Mr. Anderson. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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The UC Santa Barbara men’s water polo team landed 13 student-athletes on the 2021-22 GCC AllAcademic Team, the conference announced on Thursday.

The Golden Coast Conference had a total of 158 student-athletes earn the honor, consisting of 56 players from its six participating men’s water polo programs. UCSB’s 13 was second only to San Jose State’s 14.

Long Beach State had the third-most members with 10, followed by Pepperdine’s seven. UC Irvine and Pacific rounded out the conference with six each.

The 13 UCSB GCC All-Academic selections are Jonah Albers, Mason Chambliss, Adam Gyenis, Tommy Hawkins, Shane Hoover,

Jonathan Matarangas, Dash McFarland, Nathan Puentes, Sawyer Rhodes, Sean Rosenberg, Kian Sadeghi Garmaroudi, Ryan Strauss and Logan Sutter.

In order to qualify for the GCC All-Academic Team, student-athletes must: • Be an active participant of their team having competed in at least Fifty (50) percent of games in the current season (may not be a redshirt).

• Carry over a 3.0 Cumulative GPA (on a 4.0 scale).

• Be classified as a “full-time” student for all terms of attendance.

• Have completed a minimum of one (1) academic year at his/her institution.

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DeSantis: Florida is taking key steps to combat what he calls ‘Biden border crisis’

By BETHANY BLANKLEY THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) – The Sunshine State is taking steps to combat the “Biden border crisis,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday.

In addition to several lawsuits Florida has filed against the Biden administration over illegal immigration, Gov. DeSantis says the state is actively working to protect Floridians and uphold the law.

He’s created a strike force, filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court, and signed a new bill into law banning state and local entities from transporting illegal immigrants from the southern border to Florida. He’s also vowed to use $12 million the state legislature allocated in the budget to transport illegal immigrants arriving in Florida from the southern border north to President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware and to other states.

“Illegal aliens are being smuggled across the border in record numbers, which the reckless policies of the Biden administration facilitate,” Gov. DeSantis said. As a result, Florida is taking “additional action to protect our state from the effects of what is a full-fledged border crisis.”

The strike force, comprised of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Florida Highway Patrol, and sheriffs, is working to conduct operations to interdict human smuggling and human trafficking, drug smuggling and drug trafficking, and to seize illegal weapons, including criminal activity orchestrated by cartel operatives and gang members.

In three days recently, task force members in Northwest Florida “interdicted five illegal aliens from Honduras and two from

El Salvador who were arrested and charged with human smuggling or solicitation to commit human smuggling,” the governor said.

The strike force has confiscated nearly four grams of fentanyl, enough to kill nearly 2,000 Floridians.

The strike force “is dedicated to interdicting illegal activity in the state of Florida and working with the state attorneys to aggressively prosecute human smugglers and other criminals to the fullest extent of the law,” Public Safety Czar Larry Keefe said.

The Biden administration says the southern border is not open and its immigration policies are more humane than former President Donald Trump’s. But critics say the policies are hurting American citizens.

“The effects of illegal immigration on our state present very real costs to our citizens and communities,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Acting Commissioner Mark Glass said. “FDLE’s collaboration with our law enforcement partners throughout the state and ‘boots-on-the-ground’ police work proves effective at keeping all of us safer, as seen with this operation today.”

Colonel Gene S. Spaulding, director of the Florida Highway Patrol, said citizens and visitors coming to Florida can be assured that they “can rest easy knowing that our law enforcement officers have their back, and the governor has ours.”

Gov. DeSantis also filed a petition with the Florida Supreme Court to impanel a statewide grand jury to examine international human smuggling networks “that bring aliens to the southern border, and ultimately to Florida.”

The grand jury would be tasked with identifying and investigating “persons and international human smuggling networks

that move illegal aliens, particularly children, across the southwest border to more desirable states such as Florida,” according to the 12page petition. The grand jury would examine the impact of these networks and how they are violating state laws, as well as investigate local governments that are aiding human smuggling activity and violating state law that requires them to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

Attorney General Ashley Moody said, “We cannot turn a blind eye to traffickers and smugglers exploiting the border crisis to subject children to extremely dangerous conditions.” She’s said she’s hopeful that her office’s role in impaneling the grand jury and its overall efforts would “uncover the facts surrounding those in Florida who may be involved.”

Gov. DeSantis filed the petition on June 17, the same day he signed a bill into law banning state and local governments from contracting with carriers transporting illegal immigrants from the southern border to Florida. The law goes into effect in October.

The sponsor of the bill, state Sen. Aaron Bean, said the new law will “ensure that Floridians’ tax dollars do not go to the companies helping the federal government smuggle illegal aliens into our country.”

State Rep. John Snyder said, “Florida is standing up for the rule of law. By blocking midnight flights of unauthorized aliens and requiring our County Sheriffs to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, SB 1808 shows that as the Biden administration continues to turn a blind eye, Florida will do everything within our constitutional power to protect our people.”

Bipartisan group of attorneys general urge crackdown on THC ‘copycat’ products

By TYLER ARNOLD THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – A bipartisan group of attorneys general from 21 states are urging Congress to crack down on THCinfused edibles that look similar to popular snack items consumed by children.

Tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly shortened to THC, is the chemical contained in marijuana that produces the “high” feeling. Between Jan. 1 and May 31 this year, more than threefourths of calls to the National Poison Control Center regarding single substance exposure from THC edibles were for patients 19 years old or younger, according to the FDA. That was out of 10,448 total calls.

The attorneys general are requesting that Congress allow trademark holders to hold people accountable if they produce THC products that use packaging and branding that mimics popular snack food brands.

“As states across the country, including my own, take steps to legalize and regulate cannabis, rules have been put in place to protect children from unwitting consumption,” Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, who co-led the coalition, said in a statement.

“However, there are those who attempt to work around these

rules,” Mr. Ford added. “Copycat products that mimic snacks and candy trademarks can entice children, leading to situations that can threaten their health and safety. We urge Congress to pass legislation granting these trademark holders the legal tools needed to hold these counterfeiters accountable.”

In their letter, the attorneys general wrote that unlicensed people and businesses have produced products that have package designs similar to major snack brands, such as Doritos, Cheetos, Oreos, Sour Patch Kids, Nerds and others. According to the attorneys general, the products often contain higher levels of THC than allowed by state laws. They claimed that these products are intentionally designed to market these products to children.

The letter provided examples of when children inadvertently ate THC-infused products. On March 2, in Virginia, three Virginia parents took their children to the hospital after they ate THCinfused snacks that resembled goldfish at their childcare facility.

On August 3 in Indiana, a toddler was hospitalized after eating a bag of THC-infused snacks that looked like Cheetos, which had more than 600 milligrams of THC. “As THC infused edibles become commonplace, some

distributors have started advertising their products to look like popular candy and snack items,” Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, who also co-led the effort, said in a statement.

“Their deceiving appearance and packaging can confuse young children who come across them and has led to an increase in accidental consumption, putting their health at risk,” Mr. Miyares added. “To address this growing issue, I’m urging Congress, with a bipartisan coalition, for a comprehensive legislative solution.”

The letter noted that the attorneys general are not all in agreement on the best regulations for THC products, but that they do agree that “copycat” THC edibles are a risk to children.

JM Pedini, the Virginia director for NORML, a group that supports the legalization of recreational marijuana, agreed with the crux of the letter.

“Unregulated cannabis products packaged to look like famous brands pose not only a substantial risk to children, but to adults as well,” Mr. Pedini told The Center Square.

“Consumers deserve to know what they’re purchasing, and far too often what’s on the label is not what’s in the package,” Mr. Pedini added “We are proud to have assisted Virginia in taking direct policy action to prohibit

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Continued from Page A1 its “commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards,” he added.

Michele Mital, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said, “JUUL had the opportunity to provide evidence demonstrating that the marketing of their products meets these standards. However, the company did not provide that evidence and instead left us with significant questions. Without the data needed to determine relevant health risks, the FDA is issuing these marketing denial orders.”

But Mr. Murillo disagrees. He said, “We respectfully disagree with the FDA’s findings and decision and continue to believe we have provided sufficient information and data based on high-quality research to address all issues raised by the agency.

“In our applications, which we submitted over two years ago, we believe that we appropriately characterized the toxicological profile of JUUL products, including comparisons to combustible cigarettes and other vapor products, and believe this

data, along with the totality of the evidence, meets the statutory standard of being ‘appropriate for the protection of the public health.’”

The e-cigarette company has been entering into settlement agreements with state attorneys general after lawsuits were filed related to its products being used by minors.

In April, JUUL announced it had settled with Washington state as part of its “ongoing effort to reset our company and resolve issues from the past.” It was also continuing to work “with federal and state stakeholders to advance a fully regulated, science-based marketplace for vapor products” after having settled with Louisiana, Arizona and North Carolina.

More than two million middle and high school students used ecigarettes in 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevenyion, with 80% saying they use flavored e-cigarettes.

According to the 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey, Juul was the most popular e-cigarette brand used by adolescents with more than 35% of middle school and more than 25% of high school users saying they use Juul the most.

The FDA’s orders only relate to commercial distribution,

importing and retail sales of the prohibited products. They don’t restrict individual consumer possession or use.

The FDA says it “cannot and will not enforce against individual consumer possession or use of JUUL products or any other tobacco products.”

The announcement came after the FDA reviewed JUUL’s premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) and determined they “lacked sufficient evidence regarding the toxicological profile of the products to demonstrate that marketing of the products would be appropriate for the protection of the public health.” Some of JUUL’s findings “raised concerns due to insufficient and conflicting data – including regarding genotoxicity and potentially harmful chemicals leaching from the company’s proprietary eliquid pods,” the FDA said.

The FDA noted that it hasn’t received clinical information to suggest an immediate hazard associated with the use of JUUL devices or pods, but the MDOs it issued were based on the FDA’s determination “that there is insufficient evidence to assess the potential toxicological risks of using the JUUL products.”

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Attorneys general from Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Washington signed onto the letter.

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Provide direct customer service to campus community. Reqs: Must be able to pin cores, and to cut and duplicate new keys using key-cutting machines, impressions or code key machines. Ability to maintain locking systems by repairing and replacing worn springs, tumblers and other critical parts. Must have a thorough understanding of a master key system, low voltage and basic electrical access controls.

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Responsible for the identification, classification, tracking, reporting, capitalization, and disposition of all UCSB capitalized equipment consisting of over 11,000+ assets and book value exceeding $300M. The Equipment & Surplus Administrator is responsible for maintaining UCSB’s property management system in compliance with US FAR 52.245-1, BUS 29, and BUS 38 and is responsible for developing policies and procedures concerning UCSB assets. The Equipment & Surplus Administrator supervises a dedicated Equipment Administrative Specialist and coordinates the transfer and sales of campus assets between UCSB Equipment Custodians and the UCSB Surplus Sales. The Equipment & Surplus Administrator participates in strategic UC and campus programs and initiatives to improve systems, processes, controls, and policy.

Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Experience in a professional atmosphere, in a finance/ business capacity with knowledge and understanding of internal control practices and their impact on protecting University resources.

Experience in financial products, asset management, and corporate finance with broad knowledge of financial transactions and financial systems, as well as related policy, accounting, and regulatory compliance requirements. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across the organization at all levels. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $70,815 - $77,225/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 7/8/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 37872

CAMPUS HAZARDOUS WASTE PROGRAM COORDINATOR Environmental Health & Safety

Under general supervision, responsible for a variety of professional duties at the operational level, including developing and implementing strategies and procedures for managing operations pertaining to the Campus Hazardous Waste Program. Reqs: Solid, comprehensive working knowledge / understanding of a hazardous waste field; including related laws and regulations, and general understanding of all EH&S fields. Solid organizational skills to plan, organize, and prioritize multiple projects. Good written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively in a diverse environment. Must be medically qualified to wear respiratory equipment including a SCBA and other types of chemical protective equipment. Notes: Maintain a valid class C Calif. Drivers license eligible for commercial / hazardous materials endorsement, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull-Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Pass a physical. Must possess current HazWOPER certification within six months of employment. Able to move heavy objects (e.g. 55-gal. drums filled with liquid) and manipulate drums weighing up to 500 pounds using a drum cart. Willing to work/respond to emergencies involving potentially hazardous chemicals and radioactive substances. $28.74 - $31.13/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins on 6/30/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 37565

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Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Hope Elementary School District (“DISTRICT”) at 3970 La Colina Road, Santa Barbara, California 93110 not later than:

Affordable custom made & sized sofas & sectionals for far less than retail store prices. Styles inspired by Pottery Barn, Rest.

Hardware & Sofas U Love. Buy FACTORY DIRECT & save 30-50%. Quality leather, slipcovered & upholstered styles. Call 805-566-2989 to visit Carp. showroom.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF BIDS is at 10:00 AM, AUGUST 16, 2022, for the VIEJA VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALTERATIONS, Project No. 17-22/23 (“Project”).

Job Walk/Pre-Bid Conference A mandatory job walk, and pre-bid conference will be conducted on JULY 18, 2022, beginning at 2:00 PM. Meet at Vieja Valley Elementary School, 434 Nogal Drive, Santa Barbara CA 93110.

Bids will not be accepted from contractors not attending the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference. Prospective Bidders attending the mandatory job walk shall adhere to state and Santa Barbara County Public Health guidelines unless otherwise noted. Any oral representations made by DISTRICT representatives or architects at the job walk and pre-bid conference are not intended to be binding on DISTRICT or to be relied upon by prospective bidders.

The Plans/Specifications will be available for purchase through Tri-Co at https://www.tricoblue.com/ on July 19, 2022.

With the exception of the mandatory job walk, any requests for prebid job site visits/access should be directed to and coordinated with: Fernando Garcia at fgarcia@hopeschooldistrict.org Questions due from bidders are due by August 2, 2022, at 10:00 AM and should be directed to the Project Architect, Joe Wilcox, Kruger Bensen Ziemer Architects, Inc. at joew@kbzarch.com.

CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at Hope Elementary School at 3970 La Colina Road, Santa Barbara, California 93110. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Project description includes, but not limited to the following: replacement of existing roofing, walkways, windows and aluminum storefront at various buildings, HVAC replacement, alterations to existing restroom buildings, etc. at the Vieja Valley Elementary School site.

Per Public Contract Code Section 20103.8, the Hope Elementary School District will use Method (A) in determining the lowest responsible bid.

Contractor License required: B, General Building Contractor

PRODUCTION AND EVENTS MANAGER Department of Music

The Production & Events Manager manages all technical, logistical and operational aspects related to the Department of Music’s physical operations, facilities, productions and public events providing oversight, technical support and hands-on technical expertise to ensure professional productions for the department’s 120+ events each academic year, including a wide range of choir and ensemble performances, student recitals, master classes, and guest lectures. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience and/or training. 4-6 years experience with musical or theatrical performance production and sound. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a conviction history background check. Position requires flexible schedule to include some nights and weekends. $55,600 - $65,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 6/28/22 Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 37324

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Prequalification of Bidders and Mechanical subcontractors: As a condition of bidding on this Project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 all Bidders and all mechanical subcontractors listed in the Bidder’s proposal must either be prequalified for at least five business days before the date of the opening of the bids or must submit a completed prequalification package by the deadline stated below. Bids not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted.

Prequalification packages are available upon request. Please contact Lina Plascencia in the Planning Department at lplascencia@hopeschooldistrict.org. All prequalification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at lynns11s@aol.com or leave a voice message at (909) 337-8302.

Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney, 3345 State Street/Box 3187, Santa Barbara, CA 93130 (UPS or FED-EX ONLY) (Voice Message: (909) 337-8302) no later than, July 29, 2022 by 5:00 PM. FAXED PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. PLEASE DO NOT REQUIRE SIGNATURE AS PROOF OF RECEIPT AS THIS IS DELIVERED TO A PO BOX. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the DISTRICT has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the District Office. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law.

Obituaries Run Date

Deadline

Fri., July 1 - Tues., July 5

Thur., June 30, 10 a.m.

The Santa Barbara News-Press will be closed Monday, July 4.

Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday, July 5 at 8 a.m.

The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions.

DISTRICT will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115.

No Bidder may withdraw its bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening.

The DISTRICT reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid.

BY THE ORDER OF THE HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICE Fernando Garcia, Director of Facilities and Modernization Planning Department JUN 26; JUL 3 / 2022 -- 58453

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NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

hen Dylan Henderson, a local architect, found a deer standing in the living room, he knew there would be major challenges in renovating the home on Las Tunas Road.

“The buck startled the heck out of me, and the feeling

was probably mutual,” Mr. Henderson said with a laugh.

Located in the hills of Santa Barbara on almost two acres, the house had been vacant for a while and was in major disrepair.

“However, it was a 1957 mid-century modern revival originally designed and constructed by the late Peter Edwards, who was a wellknown architect in Santa Barbara,” he said.

Mr. Edwards and John Pitman, who founded EdwardsPitman, were natives of Santa Barbara whose fathers were also architects. Peter Edwards’ father, William Albert Edwards, formed the firm of Edwards-Plunkett with Joseph Plunkett in 1928. Their work included the Arlington Theatre and the Santa Barbara Airport terminal, and their residential work helped shape the city’s Mediterranean style.

Architect transforms vacant mid-century home

John Pitman’s father, Richard Hickman Pitman, was an associate of James Osborn Craig, architect of El Paseo and the Hoffman House.

“My biggest challenge with the Las Tunas property was to preserve the integrity of the original design while restoring the liveability of the project,” said Mr. Henderson, whose firm is named Salt Architecture.

“Salt stands for the firm’s

philosophy — structure, architecture, landscape and timeless design. I like working with salt-of-the-earth people and timeless design and projects that are integrated with the landscape.”

One of the first things he decided was that the original redwood siding and the original redwood ceiling liner needed to be preserved.

Installing a fire sprinkler system and recessed lighting

cans without disturbing the redwood ceiling liner were especially difficult.

“Everything had to be brought up to current building standards,” Mr. Henderson told the News-Press. “Because of its site, we had to make it structurally sound.”

A major problem was the flat roof.

“We had to build it from the outside in and the house Please see DYLAN on B4

COURTESY PHOTOS

This is how a Santa Barbara home on Las Tunas Road appeared, before (at top) and after its transformation at the hands of architect Dylan Henderson.

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Looking for opportunities, both from private connections and the Universe, could help you achieve your goals.

Believe in yourself, Cancer.

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Whether it’s a love match or a business partnership, it’s a good day to talk things out and sign a contract to create the ultimate dream team.

SCORPIO — Your productivity gets a major boost this week when Mercury in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Monday. You have a debt that you need to repay, and the harder you work, the sooner you can pay it off and go back to having fun.

SAGITTARIUS — Your week begins on a spicy note when Mercury in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Monday, bringing some extra pleasure to your love life. Some naughty pillows talk or talking about your desires will create an abundance of creativity and enjoyment in the bedroom. Have fun!

CAPRICORN — If you want a happy home life, you need to develop a consistent communication routine with the people you live with when Mercury in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Monday.

AQUARIUS — It’s time to get creative this week, Aquarius, as Mercury in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Monday, encouraging you to express yourself in artistic ways. This is an ideal day to try a new art medium, begin a new hobby or just have fun. Express yourself!

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NYT CROSSWORD SOLUTION The emotional cost of living In the world today

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et’s talk about the world today and what it’s like being alive in this very different time. We have been living in a pandemic for over two years, and a million people in the U.S. have died along with millions more in other countries.

Now there is a war going on in Europe, the center of our culture.

Everyone is affected by this, some to a greater degree than others, but we are all dealing with the fallout.

Gas and food prices alone are bleeding our wallets dry, and if you have to buy a car or a house right now, good luck. Words like inflation and recession are scary to most of us because we have no control over the economy. And let’s not forget that we are being gouged by those who have the power, which makes everyone a little testier.

Then there is The Great Divide that has split our country in two, and I don’t see how this can get

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mended, ever.

Seriously, we are in a world of hurt right now.

Life is harder than ever, and people are being nastier to one another.

This is not how to get through difficulty, folks.

This should be a time to pull together, but it seems that most people are just pulling for themselves, and I find that very sad.

All of this takes a toll on our emotional wellbeing. More people are using more alcohol, cannabis and other drugs to “take the edge off,” but that only works for a couple of hours if at all. You wake up the next day feeling awful or, worse, become addicted. Altering your consciousness is not the answer, but neither is ignoring the problems.

Understanding what is going on around us and creating a safe place for our loved ones is what should be primary. The future looks a bit bleak, and college kids are wondering if they will ever be able to make a life for themselves. The world has changed and not for the better; we are all struggling with a lot of issues. That’s the reality, and ignoring it won’t help anyone.

If you are in emotional pain about the state of the world, first remember that you are not alone. You need to find ways to help yourself deal with it. That means seeking some assistance to help with your inner pain and doing what you can to make things better. Most of this is out of our control, but we can make it a little easier if we are kinder to those

around us and ourselves.

I can’t say enough about the value of giving your emotional support to the people you care for. Unless you are totally selfish or void of feeling, the state of our world is causing you some difficulty.

Owning that pain is the beginning to ending it, because you can’t fix the whole world, but you can fix your world. The only way to fail at that is by not trying.

Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., is an award-winning therapist and humanitarian. He is also a columnist, the author of seven books, and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com with nearly 27 million readers. He practices in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles and is available for video sessions. Reach him at barton@ bartongoldsmith.com. His column appears Sundays and Tuesdays in the News-Press.

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negative and inconclusive results).

Dr. Benjamin published “The Transsexual Phenomenon” the following year.

In December 1952, New Yorkborn George Jurgensen revealed that he had gone to Denmark to become Christine Jurgensen in the first reported sex-change operation that included both the use of hormone therapy and actual surgery.

The celebrated riots in New York City’s Greenwich Village outside the Stonewall Inn (a popular gay meeting place) in 1969 were headed up by a transwoman (Sylvia Rivera).

In 1975, Richard Raskind became the much followed and publicized “Renée Richards,” who was allowed to compete with women as a professional tennis player. The Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association was formed in 1979, and in 1987, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) added “gender identity disorder”

eople all over America are waking up and have become aware of the direction and dereliction of our nation’s public schools.

With the spotlight now focused upon the actions of our county and city school boards and the status quo with which its business has been run, the present stakes for our students and the policies that are being foisted upon them requires full attention by all interested parties.

This business has been conducted for the most part under the radar. Now, for the sake of our children and for local and national interest, we must remain vigilant in our scrutiny of the American public school systems — and Santa Barbara is no exception.

A place to start would be examining the rights of parents in determining the parameters of their children’s education and how school boards, superintendents and principals and teachers’ unions work to thwart parents’ rights. Another threat would be the secrecy imposed by password-protected curricular and teacher-training materials to prevent parents from understanding what is actually being taught to their children. This imposition of non-approved, non-required subject matter by merging it with required and approved curricular subjects has become an abomination.

For example, a non-approved module on “Ethnic Studies,” another name for Critical Race Theory, has been merged with ninth-grade English to make this racial indoctrination a required subject.

Another important issue are these dictatorial school boards, who suppress not just parents’ and teachers’ input, but also concerned and qualified community members. This input includes proposals and objections to non-academic racial, sexual, and social indoctrination, provided by politically motivated contractors at an enormous expense, imposed secretly and by fiat.

The self-serving behavior of the board members needs to be replaced with more humility and respect to people they serve. What qualifies these board members to think that they have all the wisdom and that they have the last word, without the need for intelligent community input?

In fact, Santa Barbara Unified School District board member Laura Capps, at a meeting when asked if she thought the schools were better qualified than parents to know what was best for their children, replied that yes, definitely, the school knows what is best for the children. Remember, she ran unopposed for the county board of supervisors, and she takes her seat in January 2023 We need to insist on an independently conducted root cause analysis of the reasons for California schools to be consistently failing in performance of students through all grade levels in the fundamental building blocks of essential learning in English language and mathematics.

The comparators to be used in this analysis should not be other failing schools in California, but benchmark performance schools in America and other countries that demonstrate high levels of learning performance.

Otherwise, we continue with the same failed policies that have kept California in the lower quadrant of performance nationwide for decades.

Some of the areas to be examined by an independent analysis, would be the correct,

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twofold: First, to attempt (in vain) o listen to House to distract a besieged citizenry Democrats’ — and from the myriad problems now Liz Cheney’s and tearing asunder the country, Adam Kinzinger’s, under their leadership, in this but I repeat myself midterm election year; and second, — shrieks of hysteria from the to lay the foundation for opening nights of the Jan. a Justice Department 6 House Select Committee indictment against the dais is to hearken back to 45th president that could the Soviet-era show trials hamstring his efforts to of yesteryear. seek a second term come Vladimir Lenin, as 2024. the veteran conservative To anyone paying even commentator Roger a modicum of attention Kimball reminds us, Josh Hammer — and I’d recommend no referred to them as more than that — to the “model trials,” wherein committee’s theatrics, it is obvious the “aim isn’t to discover the that the game is rigged. Consider truth — which was supposedly as but one data point how Rep. already known — but to stage a Cheney, who will be looking for a propagandist exhibition.” new job come January, deliberately For Democrats, the aim of edited President Donald Trump’s the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s “Stop the Steal” exhortation from “propagandist exhibition” is

that fateful rally so as to omit the fact that he urged his supporters to make their way to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically.”

Or how about the fact that the committee has thus far made no effort to subpoena the families of the roughly 800 people who have been arrested — and sometimes placed in solitary confinement, per columnist Julie Kelly’s exceptional reporting — for wandering in and traipsing around the Capitol, often shepherded right in by Capitol Police? Curious, that .A legitimate committee interested in investigation and arriving at the truth would surely want to call some of those families as witnesses.

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Rep. Liz Cheney

Examining the transgender explosion

he transgender movement has a lot in common with another medical craze of the recent past.

From the 1940s to early ’60s, lobotomy was seen by many as a medical miracle used to “cure” difficult patients. By the mid 1960s, and after some 60,000 lobotomies, the procedure had been completely discredited.

This similarity occurred to me after reading a short piece by Reagan Reese, a reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation.

She reported on a Milwaukee Wisconsin public school counselor placed on administrative leave on the last day of school “for speaking out against transgender students.”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the woman had given a speech at a rally on April 23 that was filmed and put online by Women’s Liberation Radio News.

The offending counselor was recorded saying: “My name is Marissa Darlingh. I am an elementary school counselor in Milwaukee Public Schools, and

highest growing surgery in 2016I oppose gender ideology ever 2017, which grew by 155%. For entering the walls of my school transgender men the percentage building. On my dead (expletive was 289%; for transgender women, deleted) body will my students be 41%. exposed to the harms of gender “These rates,” the report identity ideology.” states, “are significantly An “investigation” by increased from the more Milwaukee Public Schools PURELY modest but still marked into Ms. Darlingh’s POLITICAL net 19% increase in GCS activities was authorized.

(Gender Confirming The Wisconsin Institute Surgery) from 2015 to 2016 for Law & Liberty has reported by ASPS. taken up her case and “What is certain, has agreed to defend however,” the report her, so the issue isn’t concludes, “is that GCS is a likely to die any time rapidly-expanding field.” soon. The Milwaukee James Buckley Gender Confirming Public Schools system is Surgery a rapidly trying to decide whether expanding field? A Melissa’s outburst rose flurry of various (and confusing) to the level of “immoral conduct” sexual identities from A to Z, and therefore enough of a the insistence of using personal transgression to allow the school pronouns and being punished system to revoke her educator for not using them, drag queen license. readings in first-grade classes …

According to a June 2019 report How did we get here? cited in the National Institutes How did we get to the point that of Health National Library of there are tens of thousands of Medicine from the American people and certainly hundreds of Society for Plastic Surgeons, sexorganizations eager to channel an reassignment surgery was the

increasing number of confused and vulnerable school-aged children into the bizarre world of “transgenderism” — the idea that people born with a certain set of reproductive organs and sexual characteristics are in the wrong body and deserve to alter that fact — in the first place?

A little history: In 1948, noted sexologist Alfred Kinsey asked Dr. Harry Benjamin, an early advocate for homosexual and transgender rights, to investigate the case of a boy desirous of becoming a girl and to see what he could come up with to treat the boy’s apparent case of “gender dysphoria.” The doctor began with doses of a new drug called Premarin (estrogen).

By 1963, industrialist Reed (née Rita) Erickson — a lesbian transsexual man and patient of Dr. Benjamin — had launched the Erickson Educational Foundation that supported and promoted the nascent LGBTQ community.

Johns Hopkins Medicine Center performed the first transgender surgery in 1965 (but stopped offering it in 1970 because of

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f you did not vote June 7, why not? Those of us invested in Santa Barbara County need to know.

Something appears to be seriously wrong as indicated by the significantly, historically record breaking low voter turnout of 21% on election night of 234,212 registered voters.

Historically in statewide, non-presidential primary years, 37% to 45% of the county’s registered voters cast a ballot. In presidential primary years, up to 58% of locals voted.

Are most registered voters too busy packing up to leave “once golden California” for states not yet transformed, reinvented or part of the Third World?

Why did 79% of registered locals not vote? I’m packing up, but I made time to study the candidates and cast my vote. Why not vote?

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t appears that areas for exploration and consumers are finally production, including massive beginning to realize resources in Alaska and on that the Democrats’ war federal lands. Moreover, they on fossil fuels is a war shut down the Keystone XL they can’t afford to win. pipeline, which would have This war began in brought another 700,000 earnest during the Obama barrels a day into our energy administration when he portfolio. promised to shut down the The obstacles to transport coal industry, which is still are myriad. For instance, San a predominant fuel source Luis Obispo County prohibited for much of America and the delivery of oil by rail to the world. (Even “green” Europe Nipomo refinery that needed is now going back to coal!) this throughput for economies America enjoyed a brief of scale. It is now permanently interlude from the closing. ExxonMobil war on fossil fuels, was forced to file a courtesy of the Trump lawsuit against Santa administration, Barbara County which achieved both supervisors because energy independence they refused to allow and a reduction the company to truck of greenhouse gas oil while a pipeline Andy Caldwell emissions. Go figure, that ruptured, some but I digress. The six years ago (through ongoing war on oil and no fault of Exxon’s), gas then achieved warp speed runs through a forbidding and the first day President Joe never-ending permit process Biden took office. to rebuild.

Consumers now know for In addition to eliminating certain, thanks to President our use of coal, the lefties in Biden being more truthful the Pacific Northwest ensured than he intended to be, that we could not build the ports the only means to force the needed to export coal either. transition to alternative Finally, there is the ability energy sources is to make and wherewithal to produce all fossil fuels unaffordable and use the more than and unavailable. Opponents 6,000 finished products and of fossil fuels consider derivatives of fossil fuels. unaffordable gasoline to be California itself initiated an a success, despite the acrossemission credit auction that the-board impacts and the requires manufacturers and obvious gap in their plans to refineries to bid on credits to have an affordable and reliable use fuel in their processes. alternative source of energy Each subsequent auction at our beck and command. includes fewer and fewer That is, the technology today credits available for purchase. doesn’t exist to replace all gas Hence, the cost to produce stations with charging stations. goes up every year.

Neither does the grid have Moreover, California enough power nor distributive is also shutting down socapacity to charge electric called natural gas “peaker vehicles at home from existing plants” that create additional continuously reliable sources, energy supplies during peak let alone intermittent wind and electricity-demand periods. solar sources.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has The war on fossil fuels is a also unilaterally declared total war against all aspects California will cease selling of financing, exploration, new cars and trucks that transport, production, run on fossil fuels. And local refining and all forms of jurisdictions are banning use. The industry is thereby natural gas hookups for stoves, daunted and stalled by cooktops and water heaters in way of regulatory fiats and new construction. Meanwhile, uncertainties in making California Attorney General vital and timely investments, Rob Bonta is suing oil meaning there is going to be companies for manufacturing even more hell to pay in days plastic over dubious claims and decades to come. having to do with its life cycle Regarding finance, the left in landfills. is pressuring and cajoling These actions portend Wall Street to boycott and nothing less than economic divest from fossil fuels, suicide. thereby robbing the industry of the money it needs to keep Andy Caldwell is the COLAB investing, developing and executive director and host of producing assets.

“The Andy Caldwell Show,” With respect to exploration, airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on Presidents Barack Obama KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press and Biden have shut off radio station.

alk about inflation is all around us these days, more so than at any time during the last 40 years. It seems to be the main topic of conversation everywhere.

But the truth is that even with the rising prices of virtually everything, we’re already also in a recession.

Let me explain.

We as a nation have had nine recessions since the Great Depression, almost a century ago. A recession is normally defined as having two consecutive quarters of economic decline. In case anybody missed it, the first quarter of 2022 had a GDP (gross domestic product) decline of 1.4%, and that was with general prices having risen 8% from the year prior.

Since we’re near the end of June now, our second quarter GDP will be reported in just a few weeks.

Because April and May continued from the first quarter to be economically weak months, and June is also in decline, we can infer that the current full quarter is also running negative, or close to it.

In 2020, it only took one quarter of decline to set-off what was considered to be the COVID-19 recession.

We are now again at the beginning of a recession.

Having high inflation and a recession at the same time is called “stagflation” (stagnation with inflation), and it’s a rare occurrence. We last experienced this back in the ’70s, under President Jimmy Carter. Back then, OPEC raised energy prices by limiting supplies of oil.

At that time, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker began raising interest COURTESY PHOTO rates in order to slow Jerome Powell down the economy, and thereby cut the inflation rate. But this time around, President Joe Biden promised to back off on drilling for fossil fuels and focus on renewable energy, in order to slow “global warming”.

President Biden basically reversed President Donald Trump’s expanding of energy production by using executive orders issued right after his inauguration. These EOs limited production of oil at a time when our economy was expanding, having just come through the previous year of COVID with the new vaccines developed under President Trump.

The result of President Biden’s EOs was the slowing of energy supplies during an expanding economy and the ensuing steadily increasing prices of gasoline and diesel, which caused the general inflation we have experienced during the last 18 months.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has begun the process of raising interest rates in order to slow the economy and thereby reduce inflation. This time around, that seems unnecessary.

Because we have the ability now to increase oil and gas supplies (which we really didn’t have back in the ’70s, with OPEC in control), President Biden should be using things like tax and growth incentives to have Big Oil increase production in order to reduce prices. That would take gasoline prices back down and preclude Mr. Powell from having to raise interest rates in order to slow the economy.

It’s just not necessary this time around to raise interest rates in order to reduce inflation, when the price rises are centered on energy costs, and those can be reduced by increasing energy supplies.

Since we have about a 100-year supply of natural gas underground, our current supplies are only limited by how quickly they can be extracted, not by limited supplies at the source. Incentives to energy companies could get us back to $2 gasoline, turn around our current economic malaise and prevent the recession from getting worse.

Fossil fuel companies are taking advantage of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine by raising gas prices and raking in record profits. California’s own Chevron just announced that its profits have already quadrupled to $6.3 billion in just the first quarter of this year. Big Oil executives are spending millions to pressure California lawmakers to ramp up in-state production and to resist commonsense regulations.

The only way to protect people from Big Oil’s price gouging is to speed up a just, clean-energy transition.

Mark Jacobson’s team at Stanford University has developed plans, ready to be implemented, to power our state with renewables. And we have no time to waste. California is already ground zero for the climate crisis.

Recently 350 SB and the Society of Fearless Grandmothers took to the streets to publicize Big Oil’s record profits and tell Gov. Gavin Newsom: “Say No to Big Oil Greed. No New Fossil Fuels.”

Gov. Newsom must stand up to Big Oil and make California a leader in the just transition to renewable energy — for the sake of our grandchildren and our planet.

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Businessman Bob Ficarra says the parklets on State Street, along with the street’s conversion into a pedestrian promenade, has added a vitality not seen in years in downtown Santa Barbara.

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he worst kept secret in Santa Barbara is a group of politicians and business owners scheming for the immediate removal of downtown Santa Barbara’s parklets. That is a terrible idea.

The closing of State Street to vehicle traffic and the parklets have brought energy to the city not seen in years. In fact, it helps distract from the record number of vacancies on State Street.

I own a business downtown (without a parklet), and I can directly attest to the fact that not only has it helped most businesses, it may have saved State Street from a business disaster. An open State Street has been widely hailed by locals and tourists — and literally everyone I know — as the best new change to the city in quite some time.

However, I do think that parklets should be more uniform and fair for all.

But people want to get rid of all the parklets and then figure that out.

That is a ridiculous idea. We all know nothing — and especially nothing important —gets done by the city quickly. Honestly, I think most would agree downtown Santa Barbara sucked the past few years, pre-parklet, and not many wanted to go visit/dine/drink and was embarrassing to tourists.

Don’t let the politicians put their own selfish agendas and deep pocketed donors ahead of the majority of people of Santa Barbara.

Demand that they do the right thing for the majority, and keep parklets in place until a fair plan is agreed upon.

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ith gas prices recently hitting record highs, Big Oil has turned up the propaganda machine to insist that more drilling will alleviate our pain at the pump.

What the oil barons don’t want to talk about is their record-breaking profits for the first quarter of 2022.

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Don’t take guns away from good people

aving spoken with one of the custodians at Santa Barbara High School, which was vandalized on May 30, I learned the worst damage was done to the math teachers’ rooms. Were the students angry because of the grades they’d received?

Is this how they show their appreciation for their teachers’ hard work and efforts to teach them?

I understand that their parents are paying for the damages and cleanup, which was extensive as the entire school was filled with oil, oysters, fish guts and windows were broken.

The students will not be charged or disciplined.

Is this a rich kids’ idea of getting back at teachers because they couldn’t get into expensive universities due to unacceptable GPAs? I have many questions and few answers.

Irene Cooke Goleta

This mess was found when police investigated reports of students breaking into Santa Barbara High School.

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have to revisit this again.

Stop it already! Stop the attack on a couple hundred million good, honest, law-abiding Americans!

With that said, I’ve changed my mind. I think getting rid of the Second Amendment is the way to go. California has the strictest gun policies in the nation and the highest (shootings) murder rate.

Apparently, more laws and regulations are the solution.

To help make things worse — er, I mean better — the wisdom of Sacramento to introduce about 24 new rules and a new bill that requires gun owners to get insurance is exactly what we need for all the drug dealers and gangs so they stop killing people, knowing they may have to pay a higher premium.

The term “mass shooting” has been defined as when more than four people are shot in one place at the same time. Hence, California can boast holding the top spot. However, apparently New Orleans is trying to catch up, and we run barely ahead of Chicago, which ironically also has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.

Also, if I understand it correctly, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the smarty-pants in Sacramento are pushing through another bill that would allow the public to sue anyone who “manufactures, distributes, transports or imports assault weapons (for which there is no clear definition), .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun (BMG) rifle or ghost guns.” In essence, Gov. Newsom is legalizing a form of monetary vigilantism.

What could go wrong? To use emotion to make critical decisions, “law makers” fashion concepts to demonstrate they are on it.

I’ve mentioned it before when Gov. Newsom, behaving like a 5-year-old, says if Texas can use a similar law for abortion, said he can use the same law for guns. Neener neener. Gov. Newsom purposely ignores the dots that abortion is also a form of mass murder, but that’s OK it’s not a gun so no laws required.

I’m all for going after everyone who uses a gun. Go into their homes, apartments, cars,or tents, and just rip ’em from their hands. I’m all for going after the guys who shot more than 100 police officers this year.

Yup, find the ones who got away and take their guns. Go get the guns from those who killed 263 people in St. Louis, or the ones who killed more than 328 in Detroit. And certainly, take the guns away from the poor, misguided, misunderstood who killed 289 in Memphis. And of course, the mother of all cities, Chicago, where nearly 800 have been killed so far in 2022. I say emphatically yes, take their guns away. No Second Amendment rights for you.

Kind of tough, though, for places like Wyoming, Montana, Missouri or South Dakota don’t even rank on the list of mass shootings. Not sure how we find those criminals and take their guns away since they haven’t shot anyone except maybe a deer. So it makes sense to go after the low-hanging weapons and collect the guns where they’re mostly hanging out, in the big cities, run by Democrats and controlled by liberal district attorneys who let the bad guys free so they can kill again. Like the executioner whom Los Angeles County D.A. George Gascon let go last year, the one who just murdered two cops.

And you know Sacramento is full of it when the guys who shot up downtown Sac, six people dead, have not received homicide-related charges.

(Sarcasm is fading away now.)

Ask yourself, where you would feel safer, in Chicago, Oakland or Philadelphia or on a farm in Nebraska?

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Red-flagging red-flag law abuse

ere we go again. The Beltway Swamp’s ineluctable impulse to (Pretend To) Do Something in the wake of a mass school shooting committed by a homicidal maniac has put America on the brink of greenlighting untold civil liberties abuses in the name of “safety.”

The grandstanding gun-grabbing reflex is a hard habit to break.

Shamefully, 10 zucchini noodlespined Senate Republicans led by Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn back a federal gun-control plan that would bribe states to adopt socalled “red-flag” (a.k.a. Extreme Risk Protection Order) laws.

These psychological profiling weapons — now in effect in 19 states — empower disgruntled strangers, duplicitous family members, biased police and ideologically driven judges to disarm citizens by labeling them mental health threats to themselves and others.

Anti-Second Amendment activists cite scientific research like a new UC Davis study as

evidence that red-flag laws are team acknowledge that “their “saving lives.” But the science is rarity makes it difficult to extract untrustworthy. generalizable information to Effectiveness data are limited. identify useful predictors of risk.”

“Part of the problem,” two Moreover, policies like red-flag researchers noted in Wired laws that target individuals based magazine, “is these laws on risk factors “would are so new there isn’t result in an extremely much data available. high rate of false positives; Before 2018, only five even the best available risk states had implemented factors can identify only a any form of red flag subpopulation in which the law, limiting our ability risk of committing a mass to test for significant shooting is on the order of effects on gun violence.” one in a million.”

Michelle Malkin Indeed, the What we do know is that associations between real-world exploitation suicide/homicide of existing red-flag reduction and red-flag policies laws have indeed created realare weak or nonexistent. The fine world nightmares for innocent print is filled with caveats like Americans. Who will keep a this disclaimer from UC Davis’ database on these invisible civilresearch team in 2019, which liberties casualties and mourn admitted: “It is impossible to know their victimization on the Senate whether violence would have floor? occurred had (orders) not been In my adopted home state of issued, and the authors make no Colorado, which enacted the claim of a causal relationship.” policy in 2020, it’s guilty until Because these mass shootings proven innocent. Individuals are so rare to begin with, candid accused of posing safety threats researchers like one RAND can be stripped of firearms for a

year under a civil hearing process where the accused are barred from responding to allegations and the standard of proof is lowered. Second Amendment advocates have warned from the get-go that ax-grinders would wield the law to exact vengeance.

They were dead-on.

In April, after perpetrating a five-year hoax nightmare, Fort Collins, Colo., mother Susan Holmes was convicted of lying on a red-flag petition about a Colorado State University police officer who had been cleared in the suicide-by-cop death of her son in 2017. Holmes had falsely claimed to be a relative of the targeted officer. She is scheduled to be sentenced this month.

In Florida, overzealous sheriffs have wielded the Republicansupported red-flag law to crack down on children as young as 8 years old. Good luck clearing your falsely accused kid’s name when his or her juvenile records — unprotected by Florida’s redflag law — get into the hands of sensationalist, pro-gun-control

media.

Military veterans know the pain and damage that can be inflicted by a “red-flag retaliation first, due process later” regime.

I’ve reported previously on how the Department of Veterans Affairs has recklessly redflagged “disruptive” military patients without due process, transparency or accountability in the name of “safety,” based on arbitrary definitions of who and what constitutes a mental health menace.

If you dare vent “frustration about VA services and/or wait times” (which led to scores of deaths during the Obama years), threaten lawsuits or make “frequent unwarranted visits to the emergency department or telephone calls to facility staff,” you can be branded, blacklisted and restricted by “Disruptive Behavior Committees” from accessing health care by the government that sent you off to war to defend everyone else’s Please see MALKIN on C4

Time proved to be the enemy in proving election fraud

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n election campaigns, we all should be wary of some candidates expressing their opinions in such a way to influence our perceptions of others since “Perception is not reality but, admittedly, perception can become a person’s reality” (Psychology Today).

This is a particular concern during times of competing forces, such as now, as President Joe Biden’s team and all the media, except Fox, are in denial of the obvious daily crisis at our southern border, service stations and food stores, pretending the border is “under control” (by whom?), inflation is temporary and saying to the citizens not able to afford gas “Let them buy an EV.” Centuries ago, a similar set of competing forces in France began when King Louis XVI becoming king in 1774 began the turmoil of competing forces that led to the French Revolution (1789-1794 or 1799 as there are differing opinions on when it ended).

These times inspired the French writer-historian FrancisMarie Avouet, with the non de COURTESY PHOTO plume of Voltaire (1694-1778), to An election box stands outside Goleta City Hall in 2020. Columnist Brent E. Zepke writes that former say “Opinion has caused more President Donald Trump and his team ran out of time as they tried to proved election fraud in the U.S. trouble on this little earth than the plague or earthquakes.” A flash point for the revolution was appears to follow the words of J. elections on Dec. 8, leaving barely hearsay. the king’s supporter and lover van Der Meulen of “In order to 30 days, minus courts celebrating At that point, from my years Marie Antionette saying to those learn how to word your opinion, Thanksgiving. representing national companies who could not afford bread, “Let you must realize that having an The states recounted their in various locations around the them eat cake.” opinion alone is not enough; you votes, but this only recounted the U.S., I knew that time reduced The turmoil in 2022 in the must be able to sell it” when he votes in the system and did not the minuscule chances of proving polls showing that President said Mr. Trump’s attorney general address the illegal entries in the fraud, even it had occurred.

Joe Biden is trailing (Bill Barr) said he knew voting rolls, the irregularities in Tick tock. The president had to the “competing force” Mr. Trump had lost, as voting machines, the stuffing of create a trusted team of lawyers of former President did his top advisers, legal ballot boxes, or the harvesting (who believed he won) to direct Donald Trump is team, daughter and even of illegal votes, which issues the litigation in various states causing members of the candidate himself. are covered by states’ laws. At after retaining counsel licensed the president’s party, Hopefully Harvard law this point it was apparent to me to practice in, and familiar with, such as Californian taught Adam Schiff that that the chances of Mr. Trump local rules and practices in the Congressman Adam these opinions, even winning were miniscule while geographically diverse states Schiff, D-Burbank, to if accurate, would not the strong presumption was of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan take actions to prevent be permitted in a legal Brent E. false votes favored Mr. Biden. and Pennsylvania. Tick tock. losing their power. courtroom as they are not Zepke Once the ballots were separated The time restrictions required Since the Democrats statements of fact. from the envelopes, it would be getting before a judge almost support the president’s These questions The author impossible to prove in a court of immediately, but courts rarely policies, the only course lives in Santa illustrate the importance law who these false votes were hear arguments before a case left open to them is the of the time factor. On the Barbara. for which left the only effective is started with the filing of a “Hillary” strategy of election night of Tuesday, remedy for a judge was to order complaint. Tick tock. discrediting Mr. Trump Nov. 3, 2020, President another election, which was highly The mixture of federal and by using the Jan. 6 “hearings” Trump won. Then every night unlikely. state laws would require the where the Democrats discuss between midnight to 8 a.m., his Attorney General Barr had filings in a federal court under anything they please without risk lead was reduced by the “found” his team verify compliance with the Federal Rules of Procedure of any contra evidence or cross votes so that by Friday night, federal laws, although federal where the defendants are examinations of the statements Nov. 6, the count showed that he laws do not address any of the permitted 21 days to respond attributed to others. had lost. The president’s primary issues listed above, before he and, usually, extensions of time Congressman Schiff, whose enemy became time as the states resigned on Dec. 4, 2020, making to respond were granted. Tick district includes Hollywood, were scheduled to certify their his opinions after that date, tock. Mr. Trump’s team had to

immediately file a motion to seek restraining orders to halt the certification process pending the court’s determination once they could present all the facts.

Tick tock. The chances of success became the three “slim brothers”: slim, slimmer and slimmest.

In the time period and with the limited access to records or voting machines in Democratic-controlled states, the only evidence available was mostly affidavits of anecdotal experiences. The federal judges were faced with the ultra-serious request to stop the certification of elections without the evidence available by cross-examination of the affidavit swearers or any statistical proof that any fraud was sufficiently widespread to have altered the elections.

Again, tick tock. Time was the enemy of the Trump team as even a hearing by the most cooperative judges took time even if the judges “ruled-from-the-bench’ rather than “took-it-under-advisement.”

Appeals to the Federal Courts of Appeals had the same time issues with Arizona being in the Ninth Circuit; Georgia, the 11th; Michigan, the Sixth, and Pennsylvania, the Third. My experience as a member of the Third, Sixth and 11th circuits is that important questions often are appealed to an “en- banc” hearing, meaning of all the judges in the court, and then to the U.S. Supreme Court as in the Bush v.

Gore in 2000.

Tick tock. The clock would win.

It appears the Jan. 6 committee is relying on the words of Arnold H. Glasgow of “The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”

However, in the spirit of Voltaire, there is hope as the turmoil in France under the “Biden-like” presidency of Emmanuel Macron just enabled the conservatives to receive enough votes to have a say in the politics of France.

Tick tock. To the November elections in the U.S. Brent E. Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. Formerly he taught at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One Heart-Two Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer” and “Law for Non-Lawyers.”

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resident Joe Biden’s attended the conference, along May trip to Northeast with leaders from the IndoAsia rightly received Pacific region. Early this month, extensive media President Joe Biden hosted a U.S. coverage. By contrast, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Nations) meeting in Washington June journey to Southeast Asia D.C. has received much less.

In Singapore, Secretary Austin Too bad. Asia has enormous met with Indonesia Defense strategic importance.

Minister Prabowo President Richard Subianto. A fortunate Arthur I. Nixon deserves special meeting, because that Cyr credit for achieving nation provides powerful direct U.S. ties with evidence regarding Asia’s China. future course.

Singapore, a main Austin stop, Indonesia held the largest onehosted the 19th in a series of day free elections in the world in conferences there sponsored by April 2019. President Joko Widodo the International Institute for enjoyed re-election for a second Strategic Studies. Established term by a majority. in 1958 by the Ford Foundation, In 2018, a Gallup Poll found IISS is respected for providing that an unprecedented 75% of reliable information on military Indonesians believed elections developments worldwide, plus inare honest. This is the highest depth analyses of international percentage ever, in a longsecurity and strategic challenges China’s defense minister also Please see CYR on C4

Columnist Arthur I. Cyr points to Indonesia as a modern success story for democracy.

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woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she’s allowed to drive there because her pronouns are “they” and “them.”

That’s from a video by a conservative Christian satire site called the Babylon Bee. Their humor gets millions of views.

“Christian conservatives used to ... be very dour and self-serious,” says Bee editorin-chief Kyle Mann in my new video.

Today, he says, it’s the left who are self-serious. “They’re the ones that have trouble laughing at themselves.”

For example, late night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert passionately defend COVID-19 vaccines.

“It is a lecture,” complains Mr. Mann.

“The left used to be antiestablishment,” adds Bee actress Chandler Juliet. Now, she says, ‘They’ve become the blob. ... We’re super happy to be leading the comedic conversation on the right.”

One Babylon Bee video, “The Woke Zone,” makes fun of the way the media ignored violence and arson during the George Floyd protests.

“Do you ever feel gratitude to the left that they give you so much material?” I ask.

“We have to write things that are funnier than things they’re actually doing,” Mann responds. “That makes our job very difficult.”

One Bee sketch portrays its writers struggling to find new material.

“John Kerry warns that the war in Ukraine might distract from climate change!” suggests one.

Can’t do it, explains another.

“It actually happened.” Yes, Mr. Kerry really did say that.

“Cosmo magazine features a morbidly obese woman on the cover as the picture of health” and “Math professor says ‘two plus two equals four’ is racist!” are among other ideas that can’t be used as jokes.

“A math professor really said two plus two equals four is racist?” I ask.

It’s “a colonialist, white supremacist idea,” explains Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Why do school districts need lobbyists?

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Continued from Page C1 audited management of a $1 billion annual budget at county, district and school levels. With particular emphasis on contracts with qualified and unqualified vendors, non-competitive awards of contracts and the use of multiple non-compete contracts split into less than $10,000 pay-outs.

It would include the signing of automatically renewing contracts that remain in place year after year.

The whole idea of annual contracts is to review the performance of the position whose contract is up for renewal.

Why does the Santa Barbara Unified School District even need the annual services of an exclusive political lobbyist in Sacramento, especially one connected with the former California secretary of education? This is one of the selfrenewing never-ending contracts that has been in operation at $3,000 per month for eight years, for a total of $288,000 and still running. Do the math for 58 counties in California. Why do the schools’ systems need a lobbyist in Sacramento at all?

The only reason we can think of, is to maintain the power of the school unions. The same unions who supported the teachers to remain on Zoom and out of the classroom, and kept the schools without in-person instruction, while other schools nationwide returned much sooner than California. This sadly set our students back even further.

Did you know that a month ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a 10% increase in this year’s budgets for community colleges and grade schools to a record level of $128 billion? The increase in funding for grade schools raises the annual spending to $73.4 billion.

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investors in a school system are not allowed a voice in how it is spent!

More money is not the answer to correct the long-standing failures in our schools.

While we are on the subject of civil discourse, when conducting government business, lately we have noticed that when community input is raised, which doesn’t align with the Santa Barbara City Council’s proposals, it is labeled a letter of protest.

The word protest is too strong and inaccurate. It has a connotation that leans toward domestic terrorism. When people disagree, it may be an objection or a show of non-support. We would like to see such language changed to what it is.

For instance, one can “object” to a proposed hike in rates for water and trash collection. That is

hardly a “protest,” but the letters of objection are being labeled as letters of “protest.”

Did You Know? is pleased to see that a committee has been formed to restore Santa Barbara’s community spirit, equity, vibrancy and prosperity. They operate with the premise that since Santa Barbara is known for its beauty and unique environment, why not work to preserve and maintain that which has always been Santa Barbara’s signature style?

They propose to keep State Street closed to private automobiles while adding an OpenAir Trolley, which will provide essential transportation service and “bring regular and predictable energy along the full length of State Street … that helps promote restaurants and business by increasing visibility.”

That idea would involve pushing the parklets off the street and onto the sidewalk, more Euro-style.

They also promote the idea of making the permitting for outdoor dining on the public sidewalk expeditious and at low cost.

They want to assist and expedite restaurants to get their dining-onthe-sidewalk, then assist them to clear and clean the street to make the switch.

This would allow us to go back to our historic and traditional use of State Street for parades and other celebrations.

Let’s hope the Santa Barbara City Council pays more attention to this group than the Santa Barbara Unified School District board has paid to its community input.

Another community issue in need of attention, is the fact that 600-plus local kids are getting denied field space at Santa Barbara Junior High School to play their Friday Night Lights.

This organization began in 2017 but was shut down for two years due to COVID-19.

Now that the kids can play again, the SBUSD board has denied them the right, at the request of the Marjorie Luke Theatre community, which objects to the Friday night field events over vying for parking spots.

Superintendent Hilda Maldonado claims that she advocates for the children, but all she accomplishes here is a terrible pitting of the arts against the sports. It creates further community division and denies the children a chance to play ball with their parents cheering them on. This is a direct assault on family values.

Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

Today a lot of comedians attract sizable audiences

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Continued from Page C3 Mann.

Today the Bee reaches more people than The Onion. The establishment doesn’t like that, so some people actually sic so-called fact checkers on the Bee. One article fact-checked

by Snopes was titled, “Bernie Sanders Vows To Round Up Remaining ISIS Members, Allow Them To Vote.”

“Does Snopes not understand that you’re making jokes?” I ask.

“I think that they know what our intention is,” answers Ms. Juliet.

“They just don’t like us.”

Recently, Twitter banned the Bee. Its offense was tweeting an article that named Assistant

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Continued from Page C1 be interested in hearing from the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran fatally shot on that day by a subsequently exonerated Capitol Police officer. Alas.

Instead, to take Democrats at their word — an always-dubious endeavor — is to believe that Jan. 6, 2021, represented the closest thing to an “insurrection” since the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. To be sure, some — a very small minority — of the protesters who made their way into the Capitol on that day did so with malicious intent. And that very small minority should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But as a whole, Jan. 6, 2021, looks something like a limper version of the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s, which amounts to no more than an asterisk in the high school history textbooks.

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In 2009, Sonny and Cher’s daughter Chastity became “Chaz,” and President Barack Obama nominated the first transgender federal appointee.

The APA changed the definition of “gender identity disorder” in 2013 to “gender dysphoria,” classifying the condition as a state of dissatisfaction and stress rather than a disorder.

Bruce Jenner became “Caitlyn” in 2015, and in 2016, Johns Hopkins Medicine Center announced it would once again provide “gender-affirming surgery.”

It’s difficult to impossible to find a social-media site that offers anything other than positive and transgender-affirming

Secretary of Health Rachel Levine “Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year.”

Ms. Levine is a transgender woman. Calling her the man of the year is a joke I wouldn’t make. But it doesn’t need to be censored.

Twitter says they’ll allow the Bee back on the platform only if it deletes the tweet. Mr. Mann says he won’t.

“Twitter has the capability to just delete the tweet themselves.

They want us to bend the knee and be the ones to click, ‘Yes, we acknowledge hateful conduct.’

We’re not going to do that.”

Today a lot of comedians attract sizable audiences by mocking the left. Some I found funny are JP Sears, Ryan Long and FreedomToons.

The culture is changing.

The highest rating late-night comic these days is often not Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon, but Greg Gutfeld of Fox. Even a few left-leaning comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle are mocking the intolerant left.

“I talk about AIDS, famine, cancer, the Holocaust, rape, pedophilia ... the one thing you mustn’t joke about is identity politics,” says Mr. Gervais in his recent Netflix special.

Professional media critics trashed him for that. But the special was hugely popular with the public.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings are revealing. Critics gave Mr. Gervais’ special a 29% rating,

calling it “terribly unfunny” and “a detestable combination of smug and obtuse.”

Viewers gave it a 92% rating.

The same is true of Mr. Chapelle’s latest special, “The Closer.” Critics give it just 40%.

The audience gives it 95%.

Clearly, many people are tired of smug, condescending humor.

I’m glad the Babylon Bee, and others, give us an alternative.

But the Democrats have found their “insurrection” — and they want to make the dreaded Orange Man, conductor of this benighted orchestra, pay for what he has wrought. Or so they tell us.

The Democrats’ obsession with the word “insurrection” raises an obvious additional question, though: How might we describe the recent attempt — thankfully aborted at the last moment — by a deranged California man to assassinate Trump-nominated Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, following last month’s seminal leak of the draft majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abortion case?

Black’s Law Dictionary defines an “insurrection” as “a rebellion, or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government.”

Surely, any sober assessment of the trajectory of events pertaining to the Supreme Court’s possible overturning of Roe v. Wade — from Sen. Chuck Schumer nakedly

threatening Justices Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch from the court’s steps to the unprecedented Dobbs leak to the now-month and a half of grueling (and illegal) “protests” outside the conservative justices’ homes to the closest thing to a high-profile politically motivated assassination in America since Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 — would lead one to conclude that this intimidation campaign against the court, culminating in a literal assassination plot, amounts to a soft “insurrection.”

And it is definitely more of an “insurrection” — more of a straightforward attempt to rebel and implement a coup against our constitutional edifices — than what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.

Nonetheless, after the Senate last month unanimously passed a bill to increase security for the Supreme Court justices in the aftermath of the Dobbs leak, it languished on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk. That bill finally passed the House this week —

against the repulsive dissenting votes of 27 House Democrats. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even openly bragged about her efforts to block the bill’s passage. If she had any sense of shame, she’d hide her head in a bag.

On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement that concluded with this admonition: “The same Democrats who want to make a national spectacle out of their supposed opposition to political violence will not even call out violence and intimidation from their own side. Let alone fulfill their oaths and put a stop to it.”

No reasonable observer of our fractious politics can disagree with that bleak assessment. Because for Democrats, what constitutes an actual “insurrection” is merely in the eye of the beholder.

psychological advice. In many states, any advice to the contrary is illegal and cause for loss of license or worse.

Once on this transgender road, it is apparently very difficult to get off. Powerful drugs and hormones, along with regular and frequent doctor visits, become a part of everyday existence for anyone who’s chosen to “transition,” even non-surgically.

The transgender route for men or boys begins with hormone injections and many options are offered, such as facial injections to alter one’s cheekbones. One can soften or more prominently define the angle of one’s chin.

Rhinoplasty will give a man a more feminine nose, and shaving one’s jawbone can soften its prominence. There’s also Adam’s apple reduction, breast implants and in the end, comprehensive surgery.

Women take a similar route

with testosterone orally or via injections, and advance to “top surgery” and other bodily alterations.

Records indicate that up to 25% of people who identify as transgender opt for the complete surgical route.

The only study I could find relating to any negative long-term effects of undergoing complete reassignment surgery was a 30-year Swedish study of sexreassigned men and women that revealed from 10 to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers (LGBT’s without having undergone surgery).

In any case, the abovementioned stats and situations are the reason for the backlash against introducing the concept of transgenderism in elementary schools.

If wisdom prevails, such classes will be curtailed, the popularity or desirability of changing one’s sex or gender will fade, and doctors, educators, psychologists and coaches will once again be allowed to deal with the often upsetting and unexpected physical and mental changes that growing children experience by offering sympathy and understanding.

And perhaps they’ll even be allowed to suggest that their young charges would be best served by living with what they were born with.

Right?

John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

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Continued from Page C2 like fuel, is breaking historical records every day, politicians prioritize taking guns away from the good people.

Pure political posturing because the opportunity rose again after Uvalde. If anything, now’s the time every state and county should be handing out permits to carry concealed weapons, and every American who’s proven not to be insane, should buy at least one gun (maybe have the government issue said weapon).

Nothing would scare guntoting criminals more than a well-armed citizenry.

And since the Democrats removed our southern border, a recent report noted 50 terrorists were popped trying to get in. We all know if 50 were caught, hundreds more, maybe thousands, made it.

Again, I’ve said this before and bears repeating, the terrorists have or will get guns, bombs, knives. They’re not in America for a better life. They’re here to ruin ours.

Makes sense then, to take guns away from Americans but don’t close the border to stop terrorists.

These are times when people are getting stabbed in the back for walking down the street or are getting pushed into subway trains. These are times when punks jump out of their cars and rob you at gunpoint in the middle of the day. Today, going shopping means holding a flash mob smash and grab.

Today, police are being slaughtered weekly, and the government thinks disarming

the public is a good plan. Fire their butts and take away their guns. Let’s see how comfortable they feel walking defenseless in the society they created.

I don’t get how supposedly smart humans can be so dumb.

Granted, the murders of children are extremely painful, but it doesn’t warrant throwing an entire nation under the bus for the fault of a crazy person and some failed policing.

Society is so easily sucked into everything. Don’t use a straw, it’s killing the turtles. Stop plastic bags, but go ahead and use paper; it’s just trees. Cops are killing people of color everyday so get rid of cops in general.

Let’s follow the piper, er, I mean the news media. They’re feeding me propaganda, and it must be true. I need to march on the street to let others know I’m fighting for a good cause. Not really sure what it is, but people are chanting, so it must be something good. And while we’re at it, let’s burn something down.

Give me a break. How about not getting sucked into mobthinking for a change? Wind and solar won’t save the planet, but it will turn your lights off. Donald Trump was in collusion with Russia, and Hillary accidently lost thousands of emails.

Hunter Biden couldn’t find his underpants but made millions of dollars looking for them.

The border is secure, and crime is down. Inflation is just short term, and the vaccine will prevent you from getting COVID-19.

Someone, give me a straw; I need a drink.

Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments at hschulteopinions@gmail.com.

‘Straight out of a totalitarian regime’ MALKIN

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VA red-flaggers can “manufacture tone, the content of what you’re saying, and will even ascribe actions to you that you did not perform,” Army veteran David Scott Strain told me three years ago, when he warned of parallel risks with civilian red-flag laws. Disabled Air Force veteran and veterans advocate/attorney Benjamin Krause, who exposes the Sovietstyle targeting of veterans flagged for exercising their First Amendment rights, calls the feds’ star-chamber procedures “straight out of a totalitarian regime.”

The potential for mass deprivation of civil liberties

simply cannot be understated in the context of end-stage America’s woke psychosis. If you stray from the politically correct position on VA incompetence, guns, masks, vaccines, transgenders in sports, Drag Queen Story Hour, election fraud, demographic transformation, Black Lives Matter or abortion, you and your children can be tagged, flagged and bagged for life.

The inmates run the asylum — and Republican traitors are supplying the keys.

Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com.

Corruption remains a problem

CYR

Continued from Page C3 term upward trend in public confidence, following a troubled national history.

Gruesome earlier events provide graphic, important context. In May 2018, the Islamic State conducted bloody terrorist attacks in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city.

Terrorism is persistent, though not frequent, in Indonesia. In a 2016 attack, four people died. In 2002, the worst attack killed 202 people on Bali, including many foreign tourists.

Indonesia’s election took place in the world’s largest nation with a Muslim majority. Trade routes and commodities provide Indonesia with great strategic significance.

Washington has the opportunity to highlight Indonesia, and neighboring nations, as success stories of expanding political stability, modernization and the rule of law. In 1998, opponents forced Indonesia’s long-time autocratic president and former general Muhammad Suharto from power.

Since then, the nation has had a representative government.

Indonesia’s international conflicts today are largely technical and legal, notably the maritime disputes that involve the nations of East and Southeast Asia. Dictatorship has ended, though corruption remains a problem.

During the height of the Cold War, Indonesia enjoyed status as a pivotal power among Third World nations. Flamboyant nationalist President Sukarno played the Soviet Union and the United States off against one another. CIA efforts to bring Mr. Sukarno down were frustrated

and boomeranged.

During the 1960s, cooperation between Indonesia and the Soviet Union expanded exponentially. This development, vital in the massive U.S. military intervention in Vietnam in 1965, is rarely mentioned today.

British forces, with Australian and New Zealand allies, defeated Indonesian attacks on Malaysia. Earlier, Britain defeated an aggressive, virulent Communist insurgency in Malaya, which today is part of Malaysia.

Britain’s military avoided massive firepower, in contrast to the U.S. in Vietnam, especially from 1965. To be sure, the British military employed air strikes and artillery, but relatively selectively. Officials rightly regarded heavy bombing as counterproductive. Given American preferences for firepower and technology, we should keep this fundamental lesson always in mind.

With today’s firm foundation, the United States has promising opportunities. Stronger Indonesia ties can leverage influence and investment throughout the enormous Asia regions. Meanwhile, our veterans, especially of the Vietnam War, should feel pride in this long-term success.

We can continue that success if we demonstrate discipline – and maturity.

Arthur I. Cyr is author of “After the Cold War - American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia” (NYU Press and Palgrave/Macmillan).

He is also the director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., and a Clausen Distinguished Professor.

He welcomes questions and comments at acyr@carthage.edu.