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Finding homes for animals Shelters waive adoption fees during special promotion By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

A few rabbits Saturday were running and hopping down the rows between hutches in this covered, outdoor shelter in Goleta. They seemed to jump magically from nowhere, then disappear just as quickly elsewhere in the shelter. All that jumping around could mean just one thing. They’re happy. “They jump up and do that twist (in the air). That’s the ultimate happy bunny,” volunteer Lori Crestfield told the NewsPress inside the Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter, which is home to nearly 80 rabbits. Oh, and don’t forget the 16 guinea pigs. One of them, Popcorn, gave little kisses to the hands of Sam Payne-Elliott, who sat at a table outside Santa Barbara County Animal Services during a free adoption day. “He’s really a good boy,” Mrs. PayneElliott said, looking down at him as pet lovers walked up. Animal Services’ Overpass Road facility is home to a dog shelter, BUNS’ rabbit shelter and Animal Shelter Assistance Program, the cat shelter. It was a busy day for all three. In the day’s first two hours, two pit bulls, a shepherd and a Lab mix were adopted at the Goleta campus, Animal Services outreach coordinator Michelle Maltun told the News-Press. And a cat was getting adopted every 15 minutes Saturday morning, Becky Morrill, ASAP’s shelter operations supervisor, said. “We’ve had five cats adopted so far, and we’ve only been open 75 minutes.” Animal Services also operates a shelter in Santa Maria, which was busy as well with its free adoptions. “We had a line going down the parking lot in Santa Maria of people wanting to meet our dogs, cats and rabbits there,” Ms. Maltun said. The free adoption day was part of the Clear the Shelters campaign, organized nationally by NBC/Universal-owned television stations. Besides Animal Services, neighboring Santa Barbara Humane on Overpass Road and Santa Barbara Humane’s Santa Maria campus participated in waiving all fees for a day for adoptions. In Buellton, Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society/DAWG also participated in the promotion but with regular fees. The need to find homes has grown more critical with a recent increase in animals coming to the shelters, Ms. Maltun explained. “Our shelters have been filling up during the last six months,” she said. Last year, it was a different story. With people stuck at home during the pandemic, they were eager to foster or adopt pets, and Ms. Maltun said during that time, animals were getting adopted as soon as they became available. But this year, people are going back to work and are traveling again, and Ms. Maltun said that has made finding homes more difficult. She found it encouraging that people were coming to the Goleta facility Saturday and providing homes for the animals. The dogs, cats and guinea pigs could go with their new families immediately. People could reserve the bunnies of their choice and be guaranteed a free adoption, but Ms. Crestfield said they don’t take them home immediately. People need time to get the supplies they need to care for rabbits. One Santa Barbara resident walked to her car from the ASAP shelter with her new domestic shorthair cats, sisters Bella and Mittens, and she was thrilled. “I’ve always had cats,” Diane Hemmer told the News-Press. “I love cats. I always feel cats need a home. Every shelter is full of these poor animals who need a home. And they’re easy to take care of.”

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SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down Saturday afternoon, wrapping up its history-making chapter in space travel with a list of firsts. The four members of the first all-civilian crew to orbit the Earth arrived off the coast of Florida at 4:06 Pacific time Saturday. “All-civilian” means these four, who clearly had the right stuff, went to space and back without a career astronaut aboard. That’s one “first.” Here’s another. It was the first splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean in more than 50 years. After circling the Earth since Wednesday, Dragon underwent a series of phasing burns to leave Please see SPACEX on A2

Jail experiences COVID-19 outbreak By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

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Lori Crestfield holds Erica, one of the rabbits at Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter in Goleta. It was among the shelters participating Saturday in Clear the Shelters, a campaign promoting adoptions.

Diane Hemmer receives a free bag of wet and dry cat food and toys from an ASAP volunteer. Mrs. Hemmer had just adopted two domestic shorthair cats, Bella and Mittens.

A new COVID-19 outbreak has been reported at the Santa Barbara County Jail. Since Aug. 19, 65 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, said Raquel Zick, the public information officer for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, in a news release Saturday afternoon. Of the 65 inmates, 17 have recovered, said Ms. Zick, who said the outbreak is currently being managed. “There are currently 48 active cases among inmates in the facility that are being closely monitored by medical staff,” Ms. Zick said in a news release. “These individuals are isolated for a minimum of 14 days and monitored by medical staff. All exposed inmates are under quarantine and will be tested per outbreak protocol.” She said four custodial staff members have tested positive since Aug. 19. The Santa Barbara County public health officer has directed daily antigen testing for all custodial staff for the next three days. On the third day, a decision is expected on whether daily testing is required. Ms. Zick said the investigation into the outbreak began Aug. 20 when 11 inmates and one staff member tested positive in the jail’s South Module. The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department is helping the Sheriff’s Office to contain the outbreak with antigen testing kits, testing personnel and oversight of mitigation efforts. email: dmason@newspress.com

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Hospitals are not being transparent about COVID-19, Los Angeles nurse Jane Roberts told the News-Press. She drove from L.A. for Stand Up Santa Barbara’s Freedom Rally Saturday in De la Guerra Plaza.

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There was not a mask in sight. But there were signs protesting vaccines and insisting on personal choice and a few American flags as the crowd Saturday

afternoon in De la Guerra Plaza chanted in unison: “We will not comply! We will not comply!” About 500 people packed the plaza during Stand Up Santa Barbara’s Freedom Rally. It followed a march from Stearns Wharf. At De la Guerra Plaza, the crowd listened to

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kid in a spacesuit,” Mr. Isaacman, 38, told The Associated Press earlier. “I also think if we are going to live in that world, we better conquer childhood cancer along the way.” And Inspiration4 was designed to study the human body in space, according to spacex.com. During their four days in orbit, the astronauts conducted research designed to help human health on Earth and during future, long spaceflights. The astronauts also went far and got a great view, thanks to Dragon. Dragon was as high as 590 kilometers or 366.6 miles above the Earth during its orbits. That’s 100 miles higher than the International Space Station. SpaceX noted the craft flew farther than any human spaceflight since the space

shuttles’ Hubble Telescope missions. And the capsule’s new cupola observation dome was the largest, contiguous space window ever flown. The entire mission was handled by the private sector. NASA’s only connection was that SpaceX used the historic Cape Canaveral launch pad used by Apollo and space shuttle astronauts. It’s now being leased by SpaceX. The four astronauts didn’t know each other until March, then underwent six months of training. That included being weightless in a modified aircraft. And here’s one last statistic to ponder. In the 60 years since space travel began, 600 people have been to outer space. Maybe “The Jetsons” isn’t that far away. email: dmason@newspress.com

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udging by the slow pace in which our judicial system trudges along (especially with COVID-19 leaving courts backlogged with more cases than ever before), one has to wonder why Kathryn Zimmie, at the ripe age of 85, has filed so venomous a lawsuit against her ex, Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner of Montecito. This conflict first surfaced last March when Mr. Warner and his lawyers obviously thought the best defense was a good offense and filed a preemptive lawsuit (in Chicago, his preferred jurisdiction, presumably after having received a demand letter from Ms. Zimmie’s lawyer), seeking to bar her from staking a claim due to “an implied or oral agreement” that he would take care of her financially. At that time, Ms. Zimmie was apparently seeking a $70 million settlement. Clearly, there was no resolution. Earlier this month, two days before Mr. Warner’s 77th birthday, Ms. Zimmie’s gift to him was her own lawsuit in Santa Barbara County Superior Court demanding $200 million (said to be half the value of Mr. Warner’s 18,967 square-foot, 6.58-acre oceanfront digs in Montecito), the return of her artwork and other personal possessions plus punitive damages for emotional distress. Cases like this can go on for years and years. And it will be to Mr. Warner’s advantage, in this case especially, to stretch the proceedings out as long as possible. Which means, this may be bleaker for Ms. Zimmie than Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House,” a novel symbolic of endless litigation. Unless, of course, resolution and payment are not the true motivation for this lawsuit, but, instead, it is about humiliating Mr. Warner in revenge for beating her to the punch and not settling with her. (That would be, in addition, of course, to the suffering she claims she had to endure — for how many years? Quite a few as their relationship apparently goes all the way back to 1977.) My point is how can Ms. Zimmie expect her ex-partner to now fork out millions in settlement after she laced her lawsuit, for all to see (and court-protected from libel charges), with the following allegations? • She said she fled Mr. Warner’s Montecito manse without her clothes and personal possessions “out of fear for her well-being and safety.” • She said Mr. Warner, upon being told by Ms. Zimmie that she was leaving, allegedly placed his hands around her neck and told her “I wouldn’t do that if I were

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Ty Warner finds himself embroiled in a labor dispute with more than 300 employees of the Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara stemming from their Furloughs in 2020.

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you.” States the suit: “Warner squeezed Zimmie’s throat so hard that she realized that her life was in danger if she ever left him.” That’s her allegation. • That she was allegedly under constant surveillance in Mr. Warner’s homestead. • That he allegedly berated her and hid the cane she needed to get around on foot. • That he allegedly committed fraud, allegedly using her identity without her knowledge to conceal assets in a shell company. The suit cites 50 alleged wire transfers in 2019 and 2020 to Cleveland Design Consultants, LLC, which she and lawyers called “a pattern of deceit.” Given Mr. Warner’s 2013 guilty plea for tax evasion and resulting fine plus community service, the last item is clearly calculated to invite renewed IRS attention. Meantime, Mr. Warner is battling legal disputes on two other fronts, one pertaining to alleged noise emanating from an unpermitted redevelopment at his Montecito country club, an action initiated by one Angelo Mozilo, former CEO of Countywide Financial and partly responsible for our whole countrywide 2008 financial collapse. (He pled guilty to securities fraud and insider trading and was fined $67.5 million.) In other words, Mr. Mozilo is no saint himself. The other legal challenge for Mr. Warner is a labor dispute involving 300-plus employees furloughed last year from his Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara, due to COVID-19 closures. The Montecito hotel’s employees are represented by a contingency lawyer who knows Santa Barbara’s Labor Commission. And courts always side with labor, whatever the facts. And there’s this. As with the Biltmore and its neighboring Coral Casino Beach & Cabana Club, Mr. Warner’s Four Seasons Hotel New York has been closed since COVID lockdowns began in March 2020. According to fourseasons.com/ newyork, the hotel remains closed “due to substantial infrastructure and maintenance work that is expected to last well in 2022.”

This is similar to what local folks have been told about the Biltmore, though no maintenance appears to be taking place. As reported earlier in this column, what we know is this: Mr. Warner will reopen neither his New York City nor Montecito hotels until he is able to sever ties with Four Seasons Hotels (perhaps leading to even more acrimony). The management contract between Mr. Warner and Four Seasons is believed to expire in mid-2022, which ties into Mr. Warner’s New York City timeline. Despite these closures, Mr. Warner’s fortune — estimated at $4.3 billion — doubled during COVID (according to Forbes magazine). One might therefore conjecture that Mr. Warner makes more money when his properties are closed than when they’re open (especially with real estate prices soaring). Is this billionaire truly a magnet for legal trouble — or is this the price people pay for being very wealthy in our ultra-litigious, Bar Association-dominated culture? It seems awfully sad to me that Mr. Warner, who revitalized the public Butterfly Beach promenade at his own expense and upgraded the Coral Casino (no thanks to members who thought they owned the place and tried to stop him) along with spending $119 million to remodel the Montecito Club … It seems awfully sad that he must spend his august years surrounded by multiple lawyers of varying specialties, his own and others’, the latter with teeth bared and claws extended — and with seemingly no end to bad publicity from all directions. And just so you know I’m not fawning over Mr. Warner, I have a

bone to pick with his Stonehouse Restaurant at San Ysidro Ranch: The prices remain sky high, but the food in no way equates. In fact, dining there for a recent birthday celebration, I saw that the meals served were far from spectacular and at best mediocre. Maybe the chef was on vacation? And we all must endure Mr. Warner’s personal taste, which, as we’ve seen, first at the Biltmore and now with his Montecito Club remodel, is best described as Turkish bazaar-meets-Moroccan brothel. And then, in contrast, at the latter, a drab dining room designed retro-1960s from the TV series “Mad Men”: very gray, very drab. Ugh. Even if Mr. Warner had better taste — or based his designs on local creativity (perhaps Chumash), not foreign heritage — one wonders what will happen to all of his holdings when he passes without heirs, and everything falls into the hands of faceless executors at a foundation or trust for whom the bottom line (as in profits) will be all that matters. Mr. Warner may have idiosyncrasies and his own taste (however odd), but he is big on aesthetics generally and seems to have the community’s best interests at heart (if focused only on the very rich). On the other hand, heartless financial folks in another state may be much less inclined to perpetuate Mr. Warner’s habit of spending without concern for near-term return. And that will be a sad day for Montecito. Robert Eringer welcomes comments or questions at reringer@gmail.com.

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Supervisors to hear countywide broadband strategy By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will receive a presentation on a long-term strategic plan for broadband deployment during their regular meeting this Tuesday. Officials from the Broadband Consortium of the Pacific Coast (BCPC), Northern Santa Barbara County Econ Alliance and REACH will brief the board on a strategy to increase broadband infrastructure and improve connectivity on the Central Coast. BCPC is requesting the county’s participation in the strategic plan, which is estimated to cost around $300,000. According to a board letter from the County Executive Office, the broadband strategy would qualify for a portion of the $43.3 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding the county received earlier this year. While the board will not be required to make a decision about funding on Tuesday, the County Executive Office is recommending the board consider the development of a strategic broadband plan to help leverage state and federal funding. In addition to this presentation, the board will also hold a cannabis appeal hearing for a 2.5-acre operation proposed along Santa Rita Road. The project applicant, Santa Rita Holdings, Inc., has requested a conditional use permit to grow a total of 2.54 acres of cannabis outdoors. The plot is located at 2300 Santa Rita Road in the Lompoc area. An appeal of the project was filed by JCCrandall, LLC. in June. The appellant claimed the project is not consistent with the Land Use Development Code, is not consistent with state law, is not supported by enough evidence for permit approval and violates California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) standards. After reviewing the appeal, staff from the county’s Planning and Development Department rejected each of the claims and are recommending that Supervisors grant de novo approval of the project on Tuesday. The meeting is set to begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Community members can attend the meeting in person at the Joseph Centeno Betteravia Government Administration Building in Santa Maria, or view the meeting online at countyofsb.org/broadcast.sbc. The meeting can also be streamed live on the county’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/user/CSBTV20. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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Richard Dolson Kalstrom passed away in the presence of family prayers Sunday night Aug 15. He was 92. He was born in San Diego, CA. At age 7, his mother died in childbirth. His father Lewis moved them to the family dairy in Lakeside, where his grandmother raised him and his sister Marjorie. He enlisted in the Army when he graduated from Grossmont High School. Code technician (cryptography) in WWII Army and reserve, engineer at Raytheon for 35 years, treasurer at Alliance Neighborhood Church, singer in Community Chorus under Charles Gallagher, Camerata Choir (Dr. Harold Dunn) and Santa Barbara Oratorio Chorale. He was a gardener, with 10 food producing trees, grapes, berry vines, strawberries, vegetable garden, and roses. Preceded in death by wife LaVella, sister Marjorie. Survived by sister-in-law Linda U. (Oregon), brother-in-law Garry A. (Arizona) son John and daughter-in-law Diane (Goleta), cousins Reynold K. (Colorado), Karen T. (Tulare), Robert K. (Valencia). Memorial at Restoration Church 595 N Fairview: Sat., Sep 25, 1 pm. Charity: Salvation Army

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Marie L. Christiansen, a native of Santa Barbara passed away August 1, 2021, in Pleasanton, California. Marie was born August 21, 1926, in Santa Barbara and attended Franklin School, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School. Upon graduation in 1944, Marie went to San Jose State College and earned a nursing degree, becoming an R.N. She served in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corp which took her to the Panama Canal Zone. While in the Canal Zone Marie met Paul Christiansen, the love of her life. They were married in 1952 and celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary last September. Paul and Marie moved from Panama back to Santa Barbara to raise a family. While raising David and Cathy, Marie enjoyed a very successful nursing career in obstetrics at St. Francis Hospital, in psychiatry at Santa Barbara County General, and later in Public Health for Santa Barbara County. Marie retired in 1988, culminating a career as a true professional who deeply cared about every patient she saw. Marie was preceded in death by her parents Emeterio and Ynez Rios, brother David Rios, and her granddaughter Alyson Christiansen. She is survived by her husband Paul, her son David Christiansen (Kris), her daughter Cathy Wagner (David), and her niece Suzanne Rios Johnson (Hadley). She is also survived by grandchildren Nicholas Christiansen, Jacquelyn Sinclair (Tommy), JillynWagner, Brian Wagner (Autumn), and numerous other family members.

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With an appetite for good company, deep and long-lasting friendships, Merrill surrounded herself with interesting and diverse people. She was a voracious reader, enjoyed the arts of painting, drawing, pottery, sculpture, music and dance, and took great pleasure in her garden where she grew roses among many other plants and was known to have lively gatherings with friends and family. Helen Merrill McRae was born in East Orange, New Jersey to Ruby Carter Adams and Roderick Dhu McRae on Oct 24, 1934. She was raised in Coconut Grove, Florida by her mother and stepfather William Warnock Gibbs. She graduated from Coral Gables High School in 1951. She married William Slocum (Bill) Tilghman in 1952 and was welcomed into the Tilghman family. After a brief period in New York City, the couple moved in 1953 to 6DQWD %DUEDUD &DOLIRUQLD ZKHUH 0HUULOO VSHQW WKH UHVW RI KHU OLIH OLYLQJ EULHÁ\ LQ Sandyland and Montecito, then a long while in the foothills on Old San Marcos Road where the couple built a house on 10 acres. Merrill and Bill owned and ran the El Tecolote Bookshop in El Paseo for a few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Merrill thrived in the artistic bohemian milieu of Mountain Drive during that era. After a divorce from Bill Tilghman, she partnered and had a son, Josef, with Jon Sikelianos and maintained a lifelong bond with the Sikelianos clan. She spent the latter part of her life on Olive Street not far from the Santa Barbara Mission, where she was a “grand dame” of the neighborhood. Merrill earned a B.A and an M.A. in English Literature at UCSB, where she attended during the 1960s while raising her family. She was passionate about teaching—not only literature, but art and cooking classes—throughout her life. In addition to her formal education Merrill seriously studied astrology and embraced an eclectic approach to the spiritual side of life including Eastern religions. She had lifelong love of animals and often surrounded herself with a menagerie. Always a commanding presence, she will be remembered and missed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, especially creative types, from many walks of life. She died peacefully at home on September 9, 2021, surrounded by loving family members. Predeceased by her parents, a son William Tilghman, a daughter Anna Maria (Amy) Tilghman Goldsmith, ex-husband William. S. Tilghman, ex-partner Jon Sikelianos, Merrill is survived by son Tench Tilghman and wife Robin Tilghman (Fresno, CA), daughter Alison Tilghman Kline and husband Kenneth P. Kline (Woods Hole, MA), son Josef Jon Sikelianos and wife Katherine (Kat) R. White (Oakland, CA), her sister Nora Gibbs Merrill and husband Thomas Merrill (Gainesville, FL), stepsisters Rebecca Gibbs (Cincinnati, OH), Denny Gibbs (Sanford, FL), Eleanor (Robbie) Gibbs (Flagler Beach, FL), and Emilie Gibbs (Orlando, FL), stepbrother Tucker Gibbs (Coconut Grove, FL), stepdaughters Eleni Sikelianos (Providence, RI) and Pouli Sikelianos (Mora, NM) and stepson Zeke Sikelianos (Berkely, CA), grandchildren Jason K. Musacchia (Falmouth, MA), Moses Tilghman and Ana Tilghman (Fresno, CA), and great-grandchildren Judah and Ezra Tilghman (Fresno, CA). In lieu of a funeral, a Celebration of Life is being planned for a later date.

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De la Guerra rally’s speakers condemn vaccine and mask requirements

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The crowd listens and takes pictures during the rally.

Amy Bohn of PERK told the News-Press pandemic measures have harmed businesses and schoolchildren.

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Attorney Ronda Kennedy calls on the crowd at De la Guerra Plaza Saturday to fight for their rights and “stand up against tyranny.” She was among the speakers at the Stand up Santa Barbara’s Freedom Rally Saturday.

the pandemic measures and the validity of the COVID-19 vaccines. During the pandemic, doctors in general have said the vaccines are making a difference, and the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department has noted that 85 percent of those hospitalized are not vaccinated. There has been an uptick in cases because of the delta variant, and experts have stressed the need for indoor masks and a higher rate of vaccination. But the crowd Saturday put its emphasis on personal choice. The emcee of Saturday’s rally, Stand Up Santa Barbara co-founder Justin Shores, told the News-Press he believes the emphasis should be on early treatment of COVID-19 and that people should be allowed to decide on vaccines after talking with their doctors. “It shouldn’t be a sweeping mandate,” he said. Speakers and people in the crowd Saturday emphasized the right to choose. “This is amazing to see how many patriots there are here today, standing up and fighting for our constitutional rights,” attorney Ronda Kennedy told the crowd. “These are our given rights. They’re rights bestowed by the Constitution and fought for us by our founding fathers. “When I look at California, I realize we are the last line of defense. What happens here spreads throughout the country,” she said. “What we have to do, we have to hold the line.” Speakers included Judy Mikovits, who

criticized the vaccines; Dr. Doug Mackenzie and others. Mr. Shores told the News-Press he felt Saturday’s rally went well and described Stand Up Santa Barbara, which has the website standupsb.com, as a nonpartisan group focused on education. He said he believes the government should listen to doctors whose views differ from the government’s views. After she spoke on stage, Amy Bohn of PERK, a grassroots organization, told the News-Press she was concerned about the pandemic policies’ impact on businesses. She pointed to the jobs lost during the pandemic and what she sees as the harm to school children because of school closures and COVID restrictions. “We were trying to get the word out to our elected officials to remember how their policies translate to the people and can actually be harmful to people,” Mrs. Bohn said. One of the people in the audience was a nurse from a Los Angeles hospital, and she held a sign that said, “Nurses for Freedom.” The nurse, Jane Roberts, told the NewsPress she doesn’t believe hospitals are being transparent about statistics and that she’s concerned about the impact of pandemic restrictions. “I took care of COVID patients,” Ms. Roberts said, noting that deaths did occur since the vaccine rollout but she and other staff members were not allowed to talk about statistics. “We had so many staff reporting side effects,” she said. email: dmason@newspress.com

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Continued from Page A1 She said she would have adopted Bella and Mittens even if she had to pay fees for them. “I do contribute every year to ASAP because I’m so glad they exist.” Nearby was a cat with a special need. Meet Pax. He’s a diabetic cat. But two people who fostered him, Suzanne and David MartinReay of Santa Barbara, said caring for a diabetic cat isn’t difficult. For one thing, you can buy diabetic cat food. “It just means less carbohydrates,” Mr. MartinReay, an ASAP volunteer, said. And the insulin shots? “It’s quite easy,” he explained. “He just loves food. I just feed him in the morning, and he puts his head down, chomping. I just give him the insulin injections (in the scruff of his neck). He doesn’t notice it. “Suzanne and I have found

a generic insulin that’s pretty reasonably priced. He takes three units, and 300 units is less than $50,” Mr. Martin-Reay said. “It’s only 50 cents a day to take care of his diabetes. We get syringes from Amazon.” Mrs. Martin-Reay, by the way, is on the ASAP animal behavior team. And while the couple has two foster cats, they also have four of their own. For the last word on adoptions, let’s turn to Malcolm. He’s a friendly malamute with one blue eye and one brown eye. “He was found as a stray. He just became available this week,” Ms. Maltun said as Malcolm walked up to the visitor from the News-Press to get petted. “We have not seen anyone fluffier.” For more about shelters and the latest animals available for adoptions, see the Life section every Wednesday in the NewsPress. email: dmason@newspress.com

Michelle Maltun, outreach coordinator with Santa Barbara County Animal Services, spends a moment with Malcolm, a fluffy and friendly malamute who’s available for adoption.

David and Suzanne Martin-Rey hold Pax, a diabetic cat with a sweet disposition. Standing near Animal Shelter Assistance Program, a cat shelter in Goleta, Mr. Martin-Rey said it’s easy and inexpensive to care for a cat like Pax.

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Warriors winning streak comes to an end By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT COLLEGE WRITER

Westmont (9-6, 3-1 GSAC) snapped a fourgame winning streak on Saturday, dropping a five-set match against #20 OUAZ (10-1, 3-0). After dropping the first set 33-31, the 25th ranked Warriors ran-off two straight wins by the score of 25-19, 25-18. After dropping the fourth set, 25-23, the Warriors ran out of time in the fifth, dropping the final game 15-13. “We just didn’t play well,” said Westmont head coach Ruth McGolpin. “We had a few individuals that played well, but offensively we were nowhere to be found. Our passing game never improved and there was never a moment where we clicked.” In the first set, Westmont trailed 10-6 before kills by Terlizzi, Kerman, and Minch sparked a four-point run that allowed the club to knot things at 10. Then, the Spirit responded with a 5-1 run to take a 15-11 lead going into a Westmont timeout. Westmont hung with OUAZ and got within one at 17-16. The Spirit began to pull away with a 21-18 lead, but kills by Terlizzi and Kaylee Ivie once again made it a one-point game at 2120. A kill by Brown tied the set at 23, and a kill by Malone tied it again at 24, ensuring it would take more than the typical 25 points to claim the first set. Westmont had the one-point advantage four times late in the game, but ultimately a kill and an ace gave the Spirit the 33-31 win in set one. In the second set, the score was tied at seven before four-consecutive kills by the Spirit gave OUAZ an 11-7 lead. Once again, however, the Warriors would not go away, eventually taking

a 15-14 lead on Malone’s sixth kill of the match. OUAZ didn’t make it easy, but eventually a 4-1 run Warrior run gave the club some breathing room with a 21-17 lead. Moments later, Minch’s sixth kill of the set gave the Warriors a 25-19 win to tie things up. Malone came out firing in the third set with three kills in the first six possessions to give the Warriors an early 5-1 lead. This time it was OUAZ’s turn to get back in it, and they quickly tied the game at seven. Then, a kill by Ivie and a pair of kills by Terlizzi gave the Warriors a 10-7 lead to work with. The Warriors countered each mini-run by the Spirit with one of their own for the backhalf of the third set, maintaining their multipoint lead. Eventually, consecutive service aces from Terlizzi gave Westmont a secondconsecutive set win, this time by the score of 25-18. Malone tallied four kills during the set, while Terlizzi added three of her own. In set four, three-consecutive attacking errors by the Spirit gave the Warriors their first multi-point lead of the game at 10-8. From there, it was a battle to fend off a possible momentum-swinging run by the Spirit. However, that run came when OUAZ tied the game at 15 and took the lead at 18-17. The lead grew to 24-20 for the Spirit, before a threepoint run made it a one-point game. Up 24-23, a kill from the Spirit gave the home team a 25-23 win. For the second-consecutive day, Westmont was headed to a fifth set. Westmont began the set trailing 5-3, before a timeout. Then, consecutive kills by Avie Butsko grew the OUAZ lead to 8-5, and a Westmont attacking error allowed the lead to grow to 9-5.

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Down 14-7, the Warriors went on a six-point run to pull within two. Then, time ran out on the next play, as Kate Pestova collected her match-high 22nd kill to give OUAZ the 15-13 win. “In those final two sets, their short serving allowed them to have success,” noted McGolpin, “and then for us, we needed to feed our middles. At times we were running almost an exclusive outside attack, and we just can’t be successful like that. We have to be able to have a diverse offense and we just didn’t have it today.” Malone led the club with 17 kills, while Minch added 16 of her own. Libero Lilian Reininga collected a team-high 36 digs, while Keelyn Kistner and Sydny Dunn tallied 26 and 23 assists each. “Immediately, I let the team know I was proud of them,” assured McGolpin. “Going on a run when they could have just mailed it in showed grit. However, they can’t wait to make those runs. We had to waste two timeouts by the time it was 8-5, so there was nothing I could do by then. Westmont returns to the court when they take on San Diego Christian next Friday down in Santee. The Warriors will play Hope International the following night in Fullerton, before returning home to take on William Jessup on October 1. “We have to continue to get better,” said McGolpin, “and we have to continue to get healthy. The season is a grind, and it’s a mental grind more than anything.” Jacob Norling is a Westmont College sports information assistant.

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“Another standout, freshman wide receiver Sam Narva had 204 total yards, 58 yards on 5 rushes and 3 receptions for 146 yards including a 75-yard touchdown catch and run in the fourth quarter.” Laguna Blanca will host Valley Christian Academy at 3:30 p.m. Friday.

The trip to Cambria Saturday was worth it for Laguna Blanca. The Santa Barbara school beat Coast Union 3-1 in volleyball. Games scores were 25-9, 25-19, 23-25, 25-15. That’s not all. Laguna Blanca defeated Coastal Christian there 3-2. Game scores were 23-25, 2521, 25-5, 22-25, 15-13. In the game against Coast Union, Laguna Blanca’s Lola Hall had 7 kills and 5 aces. Natalie Bianchi had 3 service aces. Frances Carlson led the defensive effort with 12 digs. In the game against Coast Christian, Amelia Fowler had 5 kills, 4 aces and overall playing that impressed her coach. “She took some big swings for us, particularly when we were out of system, and was consistent all afternoon long,” Coach Jason Donnelly told the News-Press in an email. Fiona Hernandez had 6 kills and 2 blocks. “We saw a little bit of everything today (Saturday) and made the most of our opportunities. We are a young squad and continue to learn valuable lessons each time we step on the court,” Donnelly

said. “When our serving and passing was on today, we were able to control both matches. When those skills broke down, we had to scrap our way to victory,” he said. “The girls made some nice defensive adjustments against Coastal Christian, and it was great to be able to execute late in the fifth game to secure the victory,” Donnelly said. Laguna Blanca will host Foothill Tech at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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Westmont volleyball continues winning streak By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT COLLEGE WRITER

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Both clubs came into Friday night riding three-game winning streaks, but it was #25 Westmont (9-5, 3-0) that carried that total up to four after defeating Arizona Christian (9-2, 0-2) in five sets. Westmont won the match by a score of 17-25, 25-14, 22-25, 25-14, and 16-14. “We have played more matches than most of our opponents,” said Westmont head coach Ruth McGolpin, “and a lot of them have happened to go five sets. We have played so many tight and long matches against good teams, and different styles of teams. For us, the mental aptitude to stay calm was key.”

In the first set, the Firestorm jumped out to a 9-2 lead highlighted by three consecutive service aces from Caitlin Chan. From there, the Warriors were left to play catch-up. Westmont went on a 7-3 run of their own to get back within striking distance, but Arizona Christian recorded three consecutive kills to take a 15-9 lead. Arizona Christian ultimately took the first set 25-17, as Westmont helped the opposition with six attacking errors and two service errors. “Things could have easily gone south after set one,” said McGolpin, “but I said to the team ‘take a deep breath, we got this’ because I knew we just needed to settle into a rhythm.” Please see WESTMONT on A8

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Westmont women’s soccer (41-1) posted a decisive victory Friday at the Montecito college’s Thorrington Field, defeating the Pioneers of Antelope Valley (1-4) by a score of 3-0. The 18th-ranked Warriors controlled the game from the opening kick-off, denying the Pioneers even a single shot and tallying a 12-0 shots-on-goal advantage. “Getting some quality goals today is a huge relief,” said Westmont head coach Jenny Jaggard on Friday. “Being able to put away three was a good thing today. We were tired, so we went very deep on the bench. It was great to see those players in different combinations. We played a couple of different shapes today and we also had some new set pieces that we were trying. So, we threw a lot at our opponent. We are trying to shape things for GSAC and have a lot up our sleeve.” The Warriors fielded 21 different players Friday as the coach took advantage of the team’s dominance to experiment with different combinations of players and get everyone some playing time. The first goal of the game followed a corner kick by Ande Siegel in the 22nd minute. Siegel’s kick went to the far side where it found Shayna Stock. Stock sent the ball back to Teagan Matye whose shot from the top of the 18 found the crease on the right-hand side. It would not be the last time Stock and Matye teamed up for a goal. Grace Duckens took a free kick in the 35th minute from just outside the 18-yard box on the right side. Duckens’ shot bent around the three-person wall on the left side but was corralled by Vasquez before it could do any damage. Just 25 seconds later, however, Duckens gave the Warriors a 2-0 lead off a pass from Reese Davidson. Davidson dribbled to the top of the 18 and sent the ball along the ground to Duckens. Duckens picked up the dribble and fired off a shot inside the near post that hit the top of the netting for the score. “The first half, Antelope Valley presented a new problem for us,”

noted Jaggard. “Every game we run into something different that we have to learn how to break down. They normally play a 4-3-3 (formation), but with us pressing them in so much, their wingers dropped so they were sitting in deep blocks of a 4-5-1. It is a lot to be able to break that down and get quality opportunities. “I was pleased with the adjustments at halftime. Our midfield was a little more dynamic so that we could pull them out and make them step to us. Then we could play combinations in behind. That opened up a little bit in the second half as we adjusted the game and didn’t just try to dump balls deep, which was happening too much early. We are still learning to read those cues: When is it on to play through and when is it on to play the ball on feet?” Westmont’s third goal came in the 67th minute when Stock dribbled near the end line then passed back to Matye. The senior midfielder recorded her second goal of the game on a shot from nine yards out on the left side. “There is a little relationship building there,” said Jaggard of Stock and Matye combining twice for goals. “We are definitely starting to see some chemistry between different pairs of players depending on what shape we are playing.” Kailey Meyer played in goal the first half for the Warriors and Charlotte Chipembere took over net-tending duties in the second. “Char put in a solid half for us in goal,” remarked Jaggard. “With her confidence and the way she is training, she is doing a good job of challenging Kailey for that spot. The two of them keep each other sharp. It is nice to have a back-up keeper like that.” With Westmont’s scheduled game Monday against Westcliff canceled, the Warriors will not play again until the start of Golden State Athletic Conference play on Thursday. Westmont will host the Hawks of San Diego Christian on that date as part of a men’s and women’s doubleheader with the men kicking off at 1 p.m. on Thorrington Field and the women following at 3:30 p.m. Ron Smith is the Westmont College sports information director. email: dmason@newspres.com

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In set two, Westmont established that rhythm when they opened up with a 9-2 run capped off by three kills from Addie Paul. Kills by Sara Krueger and Lexi Malone led Westmont to a 15-5 lead going into an Arizona Christian timeout. The Warriors never let up from there. Taylor Distelberg’s second kill of the night gave Westmont a 25-14 win in set two to even things up. Paul recorded four kills in the set, while Jessie Terlizzi and Malone added three of their own. In the third set, the Firestorm quickly responded out of the gate, taking a 9-4 lead into Westmont’s first timeout. Out of the timeout, the Firestorm took control of the game with a 16-8 lead, as they looked to leave the Warriors in the rearview for the second time in three sets. Westmont clawed back into the picture with a 7-3 run to make things 19-15 going into an Arizona Christian timeout. Following the timeout, things continued to get interesting. An Arizona attacking error and a kill by Distelberg pulled the Warriors within a pair at 20-18, but the early deficit proved to be too large to overcome as Arizona Christian came away with a 25-22 win. In set four, Westmont led 7-2 from the start as they looked to force a decisive fifth set. From there, it was a race to fend off the Firestorm, who would not go away easily. Westmont and Arizona Christian traded points for the most part following the early run from the Warriors, with the Firestorm keeping with four points. When the Firestorm got within three at 16-13, kills by Audrey Brown and Terlizzi helped build the Warrior lead back up to six points. Including that pivotal three-point run, the Warriors exploded to finish the set on a 91 run to win 25-14, and force the fifth set. “Blocking started to get better as the night went on,” noted

McGolpin. “Our passing got better and then we started serving to the right people and it allowed us to get their offense out of system. Specifically, Ana Neumann had some great short serves that threw them off, and Alex Gatiss was able to do that as well.” Terlizzi dominated the fourth set with five kills, and had 17 going into set five. In the fifth and final set, the two clubs traded blows early and began with five points apiece. The stalemate continued until the clubs reached double-digits, and neither club got a multi-point lead until the match had found its victor. With everyone in the gym on the edge of their seat, Terlizzi’s matchhigh 18th kill gave Westmont a 1514 lead. Then, an Arizona Christian attacking error allowed the Warriors to exhale, as the club took the set 16-14 and the match 3-2. “What I was most proud of,” said McGolpin, “is that we have shown resilience this whole season. We have had a slew of injuries and so much stacked against us, but we continue to show grit and find ways to get it done.” Along with her 18 kills, Terlizzi also led the club with 19 digs. Brown turned in an impressive match with 10 kills and six blocks, and Krueger continued to find ways to contribute with six kills and a match-high 11 blocks. “Audrey and Jessie were our two key-ingredients on offense,” said McGolpin, “they were really the backbone of everything we were able to get done offensively. Jessie was yelling like she wanted the ball tonight and she played up to that energy as well. Taylor Distelberg as well came in and had some big swings, getting four kills on zero errors in eleven attempts. Then for Sara, her blocking just continues to get better and is becoming a big strength for our team. Keelyn Kistner collected 24 assists for the Warriors while Sydny Dunn added 20 of her own. Jacob Norling is the Westmont College sports information assistant. email: dmason@newspress.com

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“I’ve played this (early Californian) music for seventh-generation Santa Barbarans. When they hear that music, tears come to their eyes,” said guitarist and singer Luis Moreno, who is part of the Santa Barbara Revels’ Equinox Concert.

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“You’ll hear the beautiful singing and the harp, and it will be romantic and lovely,” Revels Music Director Erin McKibben said about Tuesday’s concert.

uis Moreno calls early Californian music “the Top 40 of the 1830s.” There’s no doubt the music from the Rancho period has struck a chord with the guitarist and singer. The 1964 graduate of Loyola High School in Los Angeles said he learned the classics from mentors now in heaven and played the hits from long ago at the Fiesta. “I’ve played this music for seventh-generation Santa Barbarans. When they hear that music, tears come to their eyes,” Mr. Moreno told the News-Press. Mr. Moreno will share his knowledge of the music when Santa Barbara Revels performs its first in-person concert since the pandemic started. Actually, it’s the Revels’ first in-person production since December 2019. The vocal ensemble, known for its imaginative productions and cosumes, will present early Californian music at its Equinox Concert on Tuesday. The program will be outdoor at Sola Patio at the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St., Santa Barbara, and will begin at 6 p.m. with a reception, followed by Mr. Moreno’s talk at 6:30. The concert will be at 7, with Mr. Moreno soloing on some songs. For other songs, the performers are Mr. Moreno,

a retired Santa Barbara City College theater instructor; Kristine Pacheco-Bernt on violin; Kathryn Mendenhall on cello; Rebekah Scogin on harp; Josh Jenkins on guitar and vocals, and Revels Music Director Erin McKibben on flute and vocals. With its picturesque patio and fountain, the University Club’s patio seems like an ideal place to transport listeners back to the 1820s-60s, the period for the concert. “We have the ambience, and we’ll be outside. This is exactly how you would have heard this music back in its heyday,” Ms. McKibbon told the News-Press last week at the University Club while Mr. Moreno listened. “This will be a lovely evening. The stars will come out,” Ms. McKibben said. “You’ll hear the beautiful singing and the harp, and it will be romantic and lovely.” Musical selections will vary from the popular “La Paloma” to Manuel de Zumaya’s Cantana from the Mexican baroque period. Harpsichords were a key part of baroque music, but for the Santa Barbara Revels’ concert, the harp will be played instead. “My training is classical, so I’m really drawn to Mexican baroque music because its choral traditions, harmonies and counterpoints are beautiful,” Ms. McKibben said. She added that she has enjoyed learning about early Californian Please see INSPIRED on B3

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Horoscope.com Sunday, September 19, 2021 ARIES — All’s fair in love and war when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. Your ruling planet will be in your partnership zone for the next six weeks, making you feel so stagnant that you might want to start a fight just to feel like you’re moving. TAURUS — Get your act together, Taurus! Seriously, when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday, you need to get moving! Mars will be in your habit zone for the next six weeks, encouraging you to create healthy new habits for yourself and be productive. GEMINI — While things may be slowing down for the rest of the signs, life becomes a little more enjoyable for you when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. Mars will be in your pleasure zone for the next few weeks, sparking a desire to have fun and express yourself. CANCER — Plan on spending most of autumn close to home when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. The planet of passion will be in your family zone for the next six weeks, focusing your energy on home and self-care. You might have to work extra hard to find that balance between taking care of yourself and taking care of your family. LEO — Your ideas and thoughts become energized with passion when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. The red planet will be in your communication zone for the next six weeks, making your thoughts very quick. So fast, in fact, that you might have trouble getting people to understand you. VIRGO — Focus on getting what you’re worth when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. Whether it’s a raise, promotion, clothes, or lover, if you want it, claim it. Mars will be in your value zone for the next few weeks, encouraging you to go after what you want. LIBRA — Wow, Libra! You’re full of energy and enthusiasm when Mars enters your sign on Tuesday. With the planet of passion and drive in your sign for the next six weeks, this is a great time to start new adventures and act in your best selfinterest. SCORPIO — Subconscious feelings begin to make their way to the surface on Tuesday, revealing themselves in unexpected ways. That’s because Mars will be in Libra, your privacy zone, for the next six weeks. Unresolved anger could manifest as self-destructive behaviors and isolation. SAGITTARIUS — After weeks of focusing on your own ambitions, you’ll start feeling that passion and drive to help others when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. Mars will be in your social zone for the next few weeks, making you passionate about humanitarian issues. Organize your friends to fight for justice and causes you believe in. CAPRICORN — You’ve always been thought of as the workaholic of the zodiac, but you’ll truly live up to that reputation when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. That’s because Mars will be in your career zone for the next six weeks, and nothing will stand between you and your goals. AQUARIUS — Start the week with adventure when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. The red planet will be in your philosophy zone for the next six weeks, making your natural curiosity almost insatiable as you seek to discover new ideas. You might even feel the urge to go back to school or take a trip. PISCES — Tuesday brings a strong urge to make some sudden changes in your life when Mars enters Libra on Tuesday. Mars will be in your intimacy zone for the next few weeks, encouraging you to get rid of whatever doesn’t make you happy. However, don’t rush into change without thinking it over or you could be sorry.

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the Santa Barbara Revels performed a virtual Christmas production, which was filmed at The Marjorie Luke Theatre in Santa Barbara without an audience. That took some imagination, Artistic Director Susan Keller told the News-Press at the University Club. “We were only allowed to have 10 people at a time: a videographer and me and eight choristers,” Ms. Keller said. Santa Barbara Revels made the concert look like 16 vocalists on stage by filming eight of them at a time. Then the filming was edited to complete the look of a 16-member choir, Ms. Keller said. She explained the singers prerecorded their music and lipsynched for the virtual concert,

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Michael Tripp, who has been named as the new Channel Islands Harbor director, will begin his new duties Oct. 4. “As director, Michael will be working with his talented team at the harbor to collaborate with our business partners to create a robust harbor economy, work with the residents and community to enhance the harbor’s recreational value, and champion enrichment projects to keep the harbor vibrant and flourishing,” said Mike Powers, Ventura County executive officer. The harbor is located in Oxnard. “The harbor provides jobs and revenue, brings in tourism dollars and serves as a destination for people looking for restaurants, hotels, activities and events,” Mr. Powers said. “Recently retired Harbor Director Mark Sandoval did an excellent job in positioning the harbor for success with the recent cooperation agreement and visioning process. We look forward to having Michael continue the momentum on this path.” Mr. Tripp most recently

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FYI Santa Barbara Revels will perform its Equinox Concert Tuesday at the University Club, Sola Patio at the University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St., Santa Barbara. The program begins with a reception 6, followed by guitarist/singer Luis Moreno’s talk at 6:30 and the concert at 7. Tickets for the reception, discussion and concert are $30 in advance and $35 at the concert. To purchase, go to m.bpt.me/event/5206796. For more information, go to facebook.com/santabarbararevels or santabarbararevels.org.

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and that the County could be proud of. He also oversaw the capital projects section of his department, which manages construction projects on Los Angeles County beaches and in the Marina del Rey Harbor. His work included all aspects of the planning process from initial concept design to project management. In May, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and Oxnard City Council Members both unanimously approved a cooperation agreement for major improvements in the Channel Islands Harbor, agreeing to areas of land use and shared cost of maintenance and infrastructure. Channel Islands Harbor contains 310 acres of land and water area, more than 2,000 boat slips, and a variety of marina facilities, restaurants, sportfishing facilities and shops. email: mmcmahon@newspress. com

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but wore Elizabethan costumes. “It was very much appreciated by the people who saw it,” Ms. Keller said. “It was Christmas cheer that everybody needed.” That said, there will be no lipsynching at Tuesday’s concert. The music will be live and dynamic, and Santa Barbara Revels will interact with the audience it has missed. “It’s everything for Revels. Audience participation is one of the hallmarks of Revels,” said Ms. Keller, who founded Santa Barbara Revels. The ensemble has been presenting full performances locally since 2008. Ms. McKibben said Tuesday’s concert will be a preview of Santa Barbara Revels’ fullfledged production of “The Christmas Revels: An Early

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Dave Zirin will discuss his book, “The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World,” at 6 p.m. Oct. 4. Chaucer’s Books is hosting the online talk.

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“Irresistible Delights: Recent Gifts to the Art Collection” will be on view when the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB reopens Saturday.

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At left, a Gagaku performance with Taiko drum is from “Gagaku Workshops: Court Music and Dance from Japan.” An exhibit, “Sound of a Thousand Years: Gagaku Instruments from Japan,” will open Saturday at the AD&A Museum at UCSB. At right, “From Riggs to Neutra and Niemeyer: Tremaine Houses, 1936-1977” is among the new exhibits at the AD&A Museum at UCSB. The exhibit concerns houses built and projects by Lutah Maria Riggs and Arvin B. Shaw, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, and Paul L. Soderburg. Above is a 1947 view of the swimming pool at the beach club (not realized) at Serena Beach near Montecito, and those involved were Lutah Maria Riggs and Arvin B. Shaw III.

UCSB art/design museum reopens with new exhibits By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB will reopen Saturday with three new exhibitions. “Irresistible Delights: Recent Gifts to the Art Collection” will be on view from Saturday through Dec. 12. Included will be the AD&A Museum’s holdings that have been donated by friends, patrons, alumni and faculty during the past decade. Recent accessions include works by Amy Cutler, Alison Saar, Masami Teraoka and Brenna Youngblood. “Sound of a Thousand Years: Gagaku Instruments from Japan,” which is on view from Saturday through May 1, presents the history of the Gagaku orchestra at the Imperial Palace of Japan. The exhibit features instruments, scores, costumes, ancient depictions of performances, videos, photographs and other

objects of Santa Barbara material Homes That culture. Made Modern For more information about the “From Riggs Architectural Art, Design & Architecture Museum at to Neutra and History” will UCSB, call 805-893-2951 or visit www. Niemeyer: be discussed at museum.ucsb.edu. Tremaine 5:30 p.m. Nov. Houses, 193611. Professor 1977” presents Volker Welter will four mid-20th century modern present the talk outdoors at the houses in and around Santa AD&D museum, 552 University Barbara. On view from Saturday Road. through May 1, it includes houses The museum has instituted and projects by Lutah Maria the following protocols to stay Riggs, Arvin B. Shaw III, Richard consistent with Santa Barbara Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer and Paul County and state public health L. Soderberg. policies: Admission to the museum is • All visitors, students, faculty always free. Hours are noon and staff are required to wear to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through face coverings in the museum Sundays. galleries. Face coverings will be The museum’s programs provided to those visitors who do include “Cheap and Thin: Richard not have one. Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright,” • Visitors from outside UCSB, an online talk via Zoom by Dr. including vendors, consultants Raymond R. Neutra at 5:30 p.m. and external collaborators, will Oct. 21. be required to fill an On Demand And “Tremaine Houses: The Screening Survey on the day of Untold Story of the Mid-Century their visit and receive approval

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before arriving on campus, where they will show clearance badges. • Visitors affiliated with UCSB (students, faculty, staff) will need to complete a COVID-19 Screening Survey and receive the subsequent approval before arriving on campus. • The museum´s front desk personnel will ask all visitors (affiliated and non-affiliated) to show their clearance badge from the screening survey. • Visitors who have not filled their surveys in advance of their arrival on campus will be asked to do so at the museum’s entry. To this end, the museum will provide online access to the screening survey via a tablet that will be disinfected after each use. • Museum galleries will be cleaned weekly by the university’s Custodial Services. • Researchers are asked to refer to www.museum.ucsb.edu to request an appointment. email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

Cottage Health to address fall prevention Falling doesn’t have to be part of aging, according to Cottage Health experts. They will present a free virtual discussion on the most common causes of falls and simple steps to prevent them from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday. The main topics will include

home safety, medication safety, the importance of exercise and talking to a healthcare provider about minimizing fall risks. A team including Cottage experts from trauma services nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy and physical therapy will lead the discussion. Falls are the most common cause

of nonfatal injuries and accidental death for those over the age of 65, according to a news release. At Cottage Health and across the nation, falls also are a leading cause of trauma. More than one in four people 65 and older experience fall injuries each year, and more than 3 million

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The invasion of the U.S. must stop

t needs to be repeated and repeated and then repeated again. We’re being invaded, and our government is aiding and abetting the enemy. With 1.3 million people having crossed the border so far this year, and those are ones we know of, America is being occupied. A year or so ago I received death threats because I wrote about this incursion when it was just a trickle compared to now. And it’s no longer our neighbors from the south pouring in, it’s people from all over the world who are taking advantage of our treasonous administration. They fly from the Middle East to Brazil, where the cartel takes their cash. Then they work their way north to America. This is a problem of titanic proportions and

cannot be ignored like it is. the bigger question is why are we Yet purely based upon political allowing it to continue? motivation, the press turns its back It can be stopped today! on what’s real news and I watched a very goes after “right-wing” antidisturbing documentary vaxxers to deflect. They fail regarding the thousands to do their job on reporting of kids flooding across by regurgitating what the Mexican border. It each other says, and the sent chills through me administration pulls on the and twisted my stomach. ring in their noses to guide About a third of the them. children are runners for Henry We keep getting fed the cartels and another Schulte propaganda that the open third go into child porn! border is a humanitarian Our government is The author effort. Not even close. It condoning child porn! has become one of the most lives in Solvang Most of the kids lucrative businesses the were used as decoys cartels have ever been involved in, to allow the cartel to bring in and we’re helping them. their drugs and adults at another They are literally laughing all location while Border Patrol was the way to the bank making billions busy elsewhere. We’ve all seen upon billions. Why did we allow it and heard about the wristbands to happen in the first place, though denoting all kinds of things: where

they’re going, how much they owe and how many times they’ve gone back and forth across the border. President Joe Biden and his band of socialists for some reason think it’s America’s obligation to allow everyone and anyone who wants to come into our country, despite COVID, no jobs and all, and welcome them with open arms and cash. Where their bogus compassion goes south is when they bury their heads and close their eyes to avoid seeing the real truth. Reality and facts don’t play well with liberal dogma. The cartel’s operation is more efficient than Disneyland, and we’ve given them the red carpet to operate at will. As the result of how President Joe Biden handled Afghanistan, the Taliban and cartels have no fear of America anymore. Neither

does anyone else. For example, Rocket Man in North Korea is launching rockets again. The cartels have been given carte blanche to do as they please and send over as many drugs as possible and make another fortune on the side with human smuggling. Every day while we go to work or watch TV at night, thousands, upon endless of thousands of humans and tons and tons of drugs, flow into America in a neverending stream of death. And the ante has been raised because of the real terrorists, not the fake domestic terrorists old Joe says we need to worry about. The open border is a national security issue. A massive national security issue. Stop it already with Please see SCHULTE on C4

We’ll never forget 9/11/01 or 8/31/21

ho of the Greatest Generation didn’t remember where they were on Dec. 7, 1941? No one. I’m sure. They all remembered. Who of my generation doesn’t remember where they were on Nov. 22, 1963? I imagine few. Who of my children’s generation don’t remember where they were on Sept. 11, 2001? If they don’t, it’s time. It was 1963, and I was in my kitchen in Providence, R.I., with a friend and my son, Keith, when the news came over the radio that J.F.K. had been shot. My friend and I couldn’t believe the life-changing news through shock, tears and prisms of happy childhoods. For me, it was the beginning of a quest to escape the Woodstock Generation’s culture of drugs, sex and rock and roll. I hoped to give my son a sane environment in which to grow up. I escaped to Switzerland in

1967 and remained in Europe country became more like what I for 21 years. I watched from the fled over two decades earlier. sidelines of Cape Cod summers as I remember an accomplished the America I knew slowly became sailor telling me that he had adrift in a sea of déja vu socialism rented a storage unit on that has metastasized into Manhattan’s upper East the Marxist madness we Side to store an inflatable Calla Jones now have. dinghy, an outboard Corner I returned to the motor and gas in case States in 1989 with few his children, working The author illusions of returning in Manhattan, had to lives in to the New England in suddenly escape should Montecito which I’d grown up — a the city be a terrorist Norman Rockwell New target. For my generation, England seen from the small town the future looked troubling and of Weston, Conn. With a British insecure. husband and two adolescent We were at our Cape Cod daughters, we chose New Canaan, summer house with our morning Conn. for the easy commute to tea and coffee, watching the Manhattan and the excellent news, when we witnessed the two schools, hoping our choice of a planes hit the World Trade Center town that still held traditional Towers. Our first thoughts were of conservative values was the right our 25- year-old daughter, Lucy, in one. her apartment on West 25th street. At neighborhood parties, When our confused and parents often traded worries of frightened daughter answered the what our children would have to phone, we told her to immediately face in the years to come as the go to our apartment on East

90th and stay there until we arrived. Trembling, she ran the 65 blocks through a cloud of black dust. I thought of our former New Canaan neighbor and if his children were escaping on the East River. Four days later we made it back to the isolated island-city we now called home most of the year. During those four days in our peaceful summer environment, so near and yet so far from Lucy, Richard, and I had time to consider the future. Should we return to Switzerland, once again refugees from countries that we barely recognized? Richard had fled socialist U.K. to Switzerland in 1967. We met in 1970 and married in 1971. As we tried to plan for our future, we remembered why we’d come to America in 1989, for family and opportunity. Could Richard retire early? Would our grown children come with us? Could my mother, now a widow

with strong community roots, come with us? Could we afford to live in our summer house where we felt safe and my mother lived year ‘round? We reflected on other scary times we’d lived through. For Richard it was World War II, evacuation, gas masks, rationing and a doctor father on the south coast front line, ready to serve the nation with his wife. When Winston Churchill died on Jan. 24, 1965, Richard lined up with a million other Brits to pay tribute to their hero on a catafalque in Westminster Hall. When J.F.K was shot, he lined up for hours outside the American embassy to sign the Book of Condolences. Richard had admired America for its stance on capitalism and support of the individual. I reflected on my father joining the Office of War Information a Please see CORNER on C4

he Santa Barbara City Council hasn’t just adopted a credo of “build, baby, build,” they operate with a budget attitude of “spend, sista, spend …” It’s obvious they don’t worry about who is bringing home the bacon. It’s unbelievable, but we hear that former Transportation Manager Rob Dayton really did get the $500,000 “or else I’ll see you in court” ransom that he demanded because he didn’t get a promotion that he wanted. Did they pad his CALPERS years of service, like the way it “appeared” was done for former Police Chief Lori Luhnow? She was not here for five years, and although sick time can be converted into years of service in lieu of payment, again she was gone a lot. In fact, Did You Know? was forwarded a public records request of the former chief’s time cards. And again, she was gone a lot. Who agreed to Rob Dayton’s deal anyway? The City Council doesn’t do anything without city staff’s recommendations. Was this former City Administrator Paul Casey’s doing or interim City Administrator Rebecca Bjork’s idea? Mr. Casey, who announced he was leaving in July, stepped down Sept. 10. Remember the soap opera, “Santa Barbara?” The rewrite is “Let’s Make A Deal.” Another city deal in the news are the two different green energy companies that will operate next month in Santa Barbara. The green energy company the county will use is an already established conglomerate that serves North County, Goleta and Carpinteria. This energy group claims no additional costs for the service. The city of Santa Barbara has chosen a different facilitator of clean energy — so to speak, with an additional charge. Again, both Santa Barbara City and County residents are enrolled unless they opt out. The program begins in October. Some residents received a confusing letter regarding enrollment. We were told the city staff is correcting any misunderstanding with SB Clean Energy regarding the letters you may have received in the mail. To opt out, go to sbcleanenergy.com or call 805897-1979. Get your confirmation number! Clean, clean, clean. An update on the City’s cost for cleaning up the fire-prone areas looks like a “tab” with endless zeroes. The city’s $1.6 million expended for housing 40-55 people, from these campsites for four months is already over the top. And now the nonprofit partners, City Net have come for another handout. The city admits it still has Please see DONOVAN on C4

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James Buckley James Buckley is taking some time off. His column will resume later in Voices.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 Arthur J. Cyr

LETTERS TO THE NEWS-PRESS Failures in Afghanistan traced back to Trump

Him, What doest Thou?” Therefore at my age (89), I am going to vote, sit back and rest in the knowledge that God is in control, watch the future unfold and watch history being made.

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A most natural and bountiful gift to modernity

xtremely car for that matter, without oil. irresponsible According to Resource decision makers Innovation “Currently, there and activists are about 30,000 parts in a naively and vehicle, out of which onestubbornly believe they can third are made of plastic. That replace fossil fuels, including would include the body, the every barrel of oil, with energy upholstery, the fuel system, derived from either wind or the instrument panel and the solar. lighting to just name a few. In What they are overlooking, total, about 39 different types however, is the fact that a of basic plastics and polymers significant portion of are used to make an every barrel of oil is automobile.” used for products that You can’t pave a cannot be produced road without oil, nor from any other can you produce rootstock. the tires that run on Let’s consider the big them. You can’t ship picture they continue products around Andy Caldwell to ignore. the world without Fossil fuels originally oil because you served to create can’t build or fuel electricity. There, I said it. It is ships without oil. Nor can an indisputable inconvenient you make the infrastructure truth, true to this day. for buildings, dams, bridges, The majority of electricity planes, trains and automobiles in the world is still produced without steel, and you can’t by fossil fuels. That is because make steel without fossil fuels. electricity is a secondary You can’t produce enough power source. It has to be food, via commercial produced because it does not agriculture, to feed this naturally occur in nature, country or the world without lest we learn how to capture fossil fuels, as they are used lightning! to make fertilizers, pesticides, What about wind turbines insecticides and herbicides. and solar panels, you ask? And lest you think we You can’t mine the raw could depend on backyard or materials or create the community gardens to sustain finished products you need ourselves, too many people to make either the turbines live in that concrete and or the panels. Hence, it is a asphalt jungle to make that a misnomer to consider wind realistic proposition. turbines and solar panels as Aspirin, one of the most “natural” energy sources. common medications used to Moreover, you can’t have treat pain, inflammation and on-demand electricity, 24 fevers, consists of benzene, a hours a day, 365 days a year hydrocarbon typically derived without fossil fuels because from petroleum. Moreover, the wind doesn’t blow nor chewing gum, lipstick, CDs does the sun shine throughout and DVDs, rubbing alcohol, the day and year. Nor, can cortisone, hand lotion, heart you make batteries to store valves, telephones, synthetic these weather-dependent rubber, laptops, Styrofoam, intermittent supplemental dish soap, televisions, contact energy sources without fossil lenses, artificial limbs, fuels. linoleum, along with polyester There was — and will be (which is the raw material in — no industrial revolution 60% of the world’s clothing), without oil. Sans the ongoing not to mention toothpaste and industrial revolution, we 6,000 other products are all would still be living in huts produced with derivatives of and caves, lest we denude the fossil fuels. environment of any and all Fossil fuels are nature’s gift materials that burn for our to our quality of life and the energy and heat source. Let most important raw materials us not forget that before we known to man. We have learned to develop fossil fuels, nothing to replace them. the world was burning such It is high time we appreciate things as whale oil for a fuel that which we rely on each source. and every day. You can’t make plastic without oil. Plastic is the Andy Caldwell is the COLAB most widely used product executive director and host of in the world, and it has no “The Andy Caldwell Show,” replacement. airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on Moreover, you can’t produce KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press an electric car, or any other radio station.

r. Zepke writes, “During Afghanistan (sic), as the withdrawal of troops became inevitable, President Biden abandoned President Trump’s plan for an orderly withdrawal by May 1. He relied on an empty promise from the forces the U.S. had been fighting for 20 years.” President Donald Trump’s plan for an orderly withdrawal? Typical (if facts are uncomfortable, make stuff up) right-wing horse paste. Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, one of Mr. Trump’s former national security advisers, condemned this artful deal with the Taliban as a “surrender agreement” and concluded that the collapse of the Afghan government can be directly traced back to Mr. Trump’s “capitulation” of 2020. It was, in fact, Mr. Trump’s May 1 agreement that relied on a Taliban promise to negotiate with the Afghan government and to prevent the resurgence of alQaeda and other terrorist groups in their country. John Bolton, another national security advisor of the previous administration, ridiculed Mr. Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for trying to “rewrite history” regarding his infamous negotiations with the Taliban. Others will simply try to forget this debacle. It was President Joe Biden who had the courage to end this 20-year war on his watch — something none of his three immediate predecessors were willing or able to do. Mr. Trump made promises (as he did on healthcare and infrastructure), but President Biden accepted responsibility as well as reams of valid criticism and got the job done. No amount of revisionist history will change these indisputable facts. Mr. Zepke questions the physical and mental health of F.D.R. (before and during World War II), making several awkward and feeble attempts at comparisons to President Biden. Yet, it’s Mr. Trump who needs two hands to hold a glass of water and who clamps down on the podium with a death grip whenever he speaks publicly. Also, it’s Mr. Trump who said, “If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago.” One unabashed racist and loser praising another. Who could have seen that coming? Robert Baruch Yeosu, South Korea Formerly of Goleta

It’s all in God’s hands

ince 1948, when Israel became a nation, the United States has watched over her, protected her and supplied many of her needs like an eagle caring for her nest. On the other hand, Iran, along with other nations and some people in our nation, would like to erase Israel from the map. Iran also shares a long border with Afghanistan. No doubt having our armed forces right across the border for 20 years intimidated Iran and restrained it in many ways in its relations to Israel. It will be interesting to see how Iran reacts now that the United States is not next door. In the Bible, the prophet Daniel said, “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever. For wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding.” (Daniel 2:20-21.) In Daniel 4:35, we read, “And all the inhabitants of earth are reputed as nothing. And He (God) does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto

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Barney L. Sieber Goleta

Re: “Déjà vu: History repeats itself with Afghanistan” (Brent Zepke, News-Press, Sept. 12).

Wendy McCaw Arthur von Wiesenberger

presidential failures, but I believe that in less than one year, Joe Biden has already surpassed them in that hapless category.

Do the math on climate change

s usual, Congress and the White House are ignoring climate change. According to the Federal Aviation Administration website, prior to the COVID hoax shutdown, there were 40,000 jets in the air over the U. S. daily. Jet engines emit between seven to eight hundred degrees of heat at full thrust. Jet planes have from one to six engines. Do the math, people. Forty thousand planes times 750 degrees (average) times three engines (average). That equals 90 million degrees of heat being exhausted into the atmosphere daily. Forget the egomaniacs, fools and political puppets doing anything. They are paid to do only two things. One is absolutely nothing. The other is that if they should foul up and do anything remotely productive, they must deny they did anything. Larry Henry Lompoc

Wake up, America!

omething is wrong with those we elect. I received an email of a partial picture of the House, showing your representatives, with nine politicians not standing during the pledge to our flag. A few in the back are standing but not with their hand on their heart. And what is interesting is that the nine shown sitting during the pledge are all Democrats. So when the election comes around, will you still pledge your support to these nine ? Their names are: Reps. Oppenheimer, Perkins, Stewart Cummings, C. Johnson, Aubertine, Klein, Smith, Valesky and Skelos. And let’s not overlook our “representatives” who have not visited the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Vice President Kamala Harris came close but no cigar. And shock of all shocks, Gov. Gavin Newsom has not ventured to greet those for whom he spread out the welcome mat when California became a sanctuary state. Manners haven’t even taken a back seat to protocol, and this is starting in our schools. Wake up, America. Don’t take the attitude what will be, will be. One voice can help change these wrongs. Get a backbone. You still have freedom of speech, but not for long if you just sit like a log. I am a messenger to those who haven’t been paying attention to the way our country is slipping into socialism. Wake up! Thank you for really reading this and doing something about it. Anita Dwyer Lompoc

No one is as bad as Biden

as there ever been a president worse than Joe Biden? I don’t think so. Only eight months into his term, and already we see catastrophe and chaos everywhere. Our borders are being overrun by people from all over the world, and no one knows who they are — good, bad or indifferent. Taxes and gas prices are going up faster than we can say, “Hey man, what’s happening?” We pull our military out of Afghanistan before evacuating our friends and innocent civilians and leave them to their merciless fates. I don’t believe there is one single thing that Joe Biden has done so far that has been to the benefit of our country. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I understand James Buchanan and Warren Harding were also

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Let’s make things better

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ever forget.” But we just did. Big time. “Leave no one behind.” But we just did. Thousands, in Afghanistan, along with $84 billion in armory. Statistics show a large majority of Americans now fear another Twin Towers-type assault, after our abysmal withdrawal. As the greatest, strongest, most generous nation in the history of the world, we have been reduced to a one-party government. In other words, an electoral, social, Marxist country. Our republic is controlled by big money and socialism, currently. Politicians rule us by pandemics, poor inner city education, monetary gifts to buy votes, overwhelming and unvetted immigration, and governmental overregulation. A very small segment of our culture remembers how far we’ve come: the “solid South” vote, after slavery, by Democrats. (“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black!”) World War II, the struggle to do things better, interrupted by the “swamp.” I hope and pray that as a nation, we can strive to make things better for those left behind. Randy Rosness Solvang

Chairman Mao would be impressed

’ve been watching CNN/MSNBC hawk Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book “Peril.” Watching networks endorsing and describing Gen. Mark Milley’s attempt to override the authority of a president as “... courageous and necessary ...” is beyond stunning. Chairman Mao and Uncle Joseph would be proud. Dale Lowdermilk Founder, notsafe.org Santa Barbara

What I learned about Democrats

o Democrats say they “learned something” from the recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. And they intend to apply it during next year’s midterm election campaign. Well, I did too. Apparently, the Democrats’ playbook will include avoiding any discussion of the issues, false advertising, defamation of the character of their opponents and outrageous racist claims such as “Larry Elder is a white supremacist.” Mr. Elder, of course, is a self-described conservative/ independent thinking black man from Compton who applied himself and achieved a successful career and who doesn’t fit with the Democratic Party’s narrative. These plays — along with bribing voters with federal/state aid money prior to the election, the media covering up the handling of the current COVID-19 variant and the pitiful condition of our state — contribute to dumbing down the electorate. Legions of unionized government employees, university professors, “Hollywood” personalities and the idle rich seemed to support policies that lead to high gas prices, unaffordable housing, lousy schools, endless homeless camps, high income taxes, subsidizing “stay at home” (unemployed) people in a job rich environment and the decriminalization of many crimes that directly impact our way of life. As I approach 80 years old, I am glad I am nearing the end of this ride. Let the disinterested and misinformed who make up almost 70 percent of the electorate deal with results of failed Democratic policies. Ron Fink Lompoc

‘It was President Joe Biden who had the courage to end this 20-year war on his watch’ — something none of his three immediate predecessors were willing or able to do — Robert Baruch, former Goleta resident in letter to the News-Press

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Wisconsin professor Arthur I. Cyr said Gov. Gavin Newsom must address California’s serious problems, including growing crime and homelessness.

Recall: System is the victor Editor’s note: Arthur I. Cyr is a Clausen distinguished professor at Carthage College in Wisconsin and author of “After the Cold War” (Palgrave/Macmillan).

he survival of Gov. Gavin Newsom is not primarily a victory for him. Collecting enough voter signatures for a recall is solid evidence of intense dissatisfaction with government leadership. The real winner is the system that allows the people to express their collective will between elections. California politics places a premium on citizen participation, building on a rich, at times radical and raw, history linked to the Progressive Movement of the early 20th century. The successful recall of unpopular Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, witnessed a large and bizarre collection of candidates, many of whom made victor Arnold Schwarzenegger look mainstream by comparison. The latest California recall election had a similar “inclusive” collection of contenders. During the Great Depression, California was a hotbed of religious as well as political extremists. Dr. Francis Townsend’s crackpot movement to pay a generous pension to everyone over 60 who would swear not to work, and to spend the money immediately, started in Long Beach. Sinclair Lewis’ fictional evangelist Elmer Gantry was based on real-life Bible beaters and bamboozlers found in startlingly large numbers in Southern California. Depression-era desperation — fear itself — fueled not only fringe phenomena but also powerful populism. Upton Sinclair, who exposed shocking meatpacking industry practices in “The Jungle,” was nearly elected governor in 1934. He promised any means necessary to end poverty, won the Democratic nomination in a landslide and was finally defeated only by a terrified alliance of big agribusiness, big studios and the Los Angeles Times. Republicans led by Earl Warren and Goodwin Knight brought relative stability to California politics in the years that followed, but a radical unpredictable undercurrent remained. Populism proved powerful in California, which never had Eastern-style class politics, dominant-organized industrial interests or traditional party machines. Ronald Reagan shrewdly exploited this. After Reagan’s smashing 1966 gubernatorial election victory, Harvard political scientist James Q. Wilson explained the appeal. In the boom after World War II, prosperous California working people could buy their own homes, a luxury that remained a dream elsewhere. President Reagan’s charismatic emphasis on patriotism and tradition drew voters no longer in economic need. President Reagan went on to build relatively broad coalitions, while Gov. Newsom undeniably has failed to do the same. Gov. Newsom’s conciliatory victory speech does signal a desire to do better, driven by necessity. First, however, Gov. Newsom must demonstrate success in addressing California’s serious problems, including growing crime and homelessness, very high home prices and taxes, and declining education and other public services. For now, the system is working, thanks to the safety valve of the recall. Arthur I. Cyr is author of “After the Cold War” (Palgrave/Macmillan). Contact him at acyr@carthage. edu.

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All it takes is one person to inspire others

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ne is the loneliest number,” Three Dog Night famously sang over five decades ago. But all it takes is one brave soul fighting against the tide to inspire 10. Ten become hundreds. Hundreds become thousands. Thousands become millions. Millions become a new majority. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is one. On Monday, Sheriff Bianco announced he “will not enforce the (COVID-19) vaccine mandate on Sheriff’s Department employees.’’ In response to a cascade of draconian state directives and the Biden administration’s overt war on the unvaccinated, Sheriff Bianco asserted his constitutional duty to protect the public “from the criminal element, as well as being the last line of defense from tyrannical government overreach.” Local media and establishment public health “experts” have condemned Bianco, but he refuses to back down: “In November 2018, the residents of Riverside County elected me as their sheriff. I stood before God and swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California. ... As your

sheriff. I have an obligation to school employees, families and guard your liberty and freedom.’’ city workers who overtook Foley Chicago police officer and Square in opposition to Mayor Fraternal Order of Police Bill “The Bully” de Blasio’s President John Catanzara is one. authoritarian vaccine mandate Mr. Catanzara is with no testing optleading the charge out alternative. Those against heavy-handed who claim religious or Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s medical exemptions will vaccine mandate. be barred from teaching Speaking on behalf in the classroom. School of the rank and file, he employees have until Sept. declared two weeks 27 to get the jab or lose ago that his union is their job. “100% against mandated Michelle Malkin Mr. Kane is not alone. He vaccines for our helped inspire thousands members” and blasted of protesters to join a the dearth of studies for longmarch on Monday night across the term side effects or consequences. Brooklyn Bridge as they waved “To mandate anybody to get that signs taunting “Come and Make vaccine, without that data as a Me,” “Let Me Call My Own Shots,” baseline, amongst other issues, is “My Body, My Choice” and “No a ‘hell, no’ for us.” Medical Apartheid.” The multiplier effect is real: The fight has just begun. As Mr. “It ain’t just our guys. It’s the Kane warned, “There are many sergeants, lieutenants and other medical mandates that are captains,” Mr. Catanzara pointed coming soon, and we stand in out. “This is a united front.” opposition TO ALL OF THEM!” New York public school teacher Broadway star Laura Osnes is and founder of Teachers for one. Choice Michael Kane is one. Last month, she quit a one-night He has been a tireless advocate benefit concert after the venue for parents and educators in the required all actors to get the Big Apple. His group is “100% COVID-19 shot and no option to against forced medical mandates provide a negative COVID-19 test for any American to keep their was extended to her. She walked job, especially educators.” away from the performance On Monday, Mr. Kane was opportunity because “there is so joined by several hundred public much that is still unknown” about

the experimental jabs. “I stand by the decision my husband and I, with input from our physician, have made for ourselves, our family planning and our future,” she wrote on Instagram. “I believe individuals have the right to do the research, consult a doctor, and come to their own conclusions before deciding whether or not to get any injection.” Emily Dahl is one. Hannah Redoute is one. Bailey Korhorn is one. Morgan Otteson is one. Together, they are the four members of the Western Michigan University soccer team who banded together to sue the school over its mandatory vaccine policy, citing their First Amendmentprotected religious liberty. Last week, a federal judge granted their motion for a preliminary injunction against WMU, blocking the university from kicking them off the team after their requests for religious exemptions were denied by school officials. Twelve other WMU athletes have since joined the quartet’s lawsuit: Taylor Williams, Jake Moertl, Maxwell Huntley, Kaelyn Parker, Annalise James, Reilly Jacobson, Kia Brooks, Aubree Ensign, Sydney Schafer, Danielle Natte, Nicole Morehouse and Katelyn Spooner. In June, 153 health care workers

in the Houston Methodist Hospital system quit or were fired for refusing to submit to mandatory jabs as a condition of employment. Two weeks ago, 30 maternity ward nurses and staffers resigned in protest of the upstate New York Lewis County General Hospital’s vaccine mandate with no religious exemptions — forcing the facility to close the maternity department. On Saturday, six Los Angeles police officers filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking to overturn the department’s vaccine mandate. They are not alone. More than 2,300 LAPD employees have filed notices seeking religious exemptions, and another 300 officers and staff have filed for medical exemptions — together constituting 20% of the workforce. Remember: All it takes is one. Ten become hundreds. Hundreds become thousands. Thousands become millions. Millions become a new majority. This is how tyranny ends. 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. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

John Stossel

Corporate welfare to small businesses

oday’s politicians want to spend more on everything: Amtrak subsidies, sports stadium subsidies, green energy subsidies, even fossil fuel subsidies ... President Joe Biden says the handouts will “put more money in your pocket.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims they will “protect the planet for the children.” They might. But a disproportionate amount of the money will end up in the hands of big companies — the ones with the most lawyers and lobbyists. A new documentary, “Corporate Welfare: Where’s the Outrage?,” gives examples of this. This week, my new video covers two of the worst. First, tax “breaks.” Memphis, Tenn., has a program called the Economic Development Growth Engine. It’s meant to entice new businesses to move to Memphis by giving them tax breaks. The Growth Engine gave Swedish furniture maker IKEA a $9.5 million tax break. In exchange, IKEA agreed to create 175 new jobs. Local furniture sellers pushed back. “What about us?” asked Ron Becker, owner of The Great American Home Store. “We pay taxes here. Where is our financial incentive?” Good question. Lower taxes would be a good incentive. But Memphis politicians can’t lower taxes when they’re giving big companies tax breaks. Such tax breaks are complex, so it’s big companies with plenty of tax accountants that generally get them. Memphis is “pitting these gigantic corporations who know the government and have tons of lobbyists against mom and pop shops in our community that we’re trying to save,” complained Mark Cunningham of the Beacon Center, Tenn.,’s free market think tank. “You’re basically asking people to pay more tax dollars in order for their Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Let’s calm our climate now Editor’s note: John D. Kelley leads the Santa Barbara Chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby.

bout three and a half years ago, our region experienced a pair of climate-related disasters. The Thomas Fire originated on Dec. 4, 2017, near Santa Paula, 44 miles east of Santa Barbara. It quickly exploded westward toward our coastal communities. Beyond the devastation of wilderness habitat, destruction of structures and alarming evacuations, the Thomas Fire significantly disrupted the

functioning of our communities. 100% contained. Due to extremely unhealthy air Tragically, the Thomas Fire also quality, schools and businesses created unprecedented mudslide closed, and many meetings potential. The fire had denuded and events were canceled. Also and destabilized 17 major canyons periodic power outages above Montecito and John D. affected many homes and Carpinteria. Emergency Kelley businesses. officials warned that the The Thomas Fire’s potential for flash floods extreme intensity in the burn area was 10 and size demonstrated the times greater than normal. increasingly dangerous effects of A major rainstorm began the climate change. evening of Jan. 8. The storm At its peak the fire burned at the delivered epic amounts of rain. unbelievable rate of one acre per Early Tuesday morning at around minute. At 281,893 acres it was one 3 a.m., the rain peaked. In the the largest wildfires in California mountains nearly an inch of rain history at the time. On Friday, Jan. fell within 15 minutes. 12, 2018, it was officially declared Liquefied mud, boulders and

debris raced down slopes and blasted through creek beds all the way to Highway 101. In some places debris even reached the beaches. Twenty-three people were killed, hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged, and a total area of about 30 square miles was affected. In the affected communities mud, debris and boulders blocked many streets. Power lines and water and sewer mains were damaged. Gas service was shut off due to hazardous conditions. There was no landline, internet or cable service. Regional transportation was severely impacted. Amtrak service

and Highway 101 from the south were closed. The closure of our main south highway prevented more than 20,000 workers from commuting to their jobs, mail and goods from being delivered, and tourists from visiting us. Climate-related disasters are increasing. This summer the West has roasted, and torrential rainfall has unleashed deadly and destructive floods in the eastern U.S. and western Europe. “These extremes are something we knew were coming,” climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe recently told the Washington Please see KELLEY on C4

Mark Milley exposes the myth of American ‘Democracy’ Editor’s note: David Limbaugh is on a sabbatical. Columnist Josh Hammer is substituting for him.

ast week’s deeply unsettling revelation of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley’s alleged late Trump administration-era perfidy, bordering on high treason, is but one glaring fusillade in a years-long crusade by America’s decrepit ruling

class to condemn and assault that exposes ultimately subjugate us the lie that the ruling “deplorables,” “wrongclass and its left-wing thinkers” and all others echo chamber denizens with a conservative or care one whit about traditionalist worldview. the very “democracy” It is a shot across they invariably claim to the bow in that roiling cherish. Josh Hammer cold domestic conflict, To recap, a leak of a and a clarion call as forthcoming book from to the relevant stakes. Bob Woodward and It is also a brazen assault on Robert Costa, “Peril,” claims one of the most rudimentary that two days after the Jan. 6 U.S. defining features of America’s Capitol riot, Gen. Milley was so constitutional order — an bothered by former President

Donald Trump’s demeanor and conduct that he deemed it necessary to take unilateral action outside the formal chain of command. Specifically, Gen. Milley allegedly convened a rogue meeting with senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon’s de facto war room, to tell them not to accept military orders from anyone unless he was personally involved. In effect, Gen. Milley, haunted

by hysterical cable newsinduced nightmares and caving to delusions of grandeur, took impetuous action to cut out the commander in chief of the U.S. Armed Forces himself from the formal chain of command. He did so, we are made to believe, out of fear the lame-duck president might launch a high-scale attack or nuclear weapon strike, perhaps against China. Although the qualifier Please see HAMMER on C4

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How government and media use fear and terror

e recently remembered the 9/11 attacks from 20 years ago. Just under 3,000 people died then, including the attackers. COVID-19 came to the U.S. in January 2020. Since then, approximately 660,000 Americans have died. As I am writing this, we have had an average of more than 1,100 deaths each day. In the number of deaths, we have averaged a 9/11 attack every three days since COVID-19 arrived here. Believe me, I am not diminishing the horror of 9/11, but why is there such a profound difference in our responses to both of these catastrophes? I’ll sum it up in one word: Terror! In fact, we use that word to describe those who planned and committed the 9/11 attack: “terrorists.” We didn’t call them attackers or perpetrators or bad actors. Terror is a state of immediate and intense fear. Terror, and its little brother, fear, are weapons used by our government and the media. In the early days of response to 9/11, the government created color codes to identify the level of “terrorist threat” – red, yellow and green, I believe — for any given day. They said that on

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red days we should be on high deaths, including civilians, were alert — extremely cautious and 172,000 — which equals 57½ 9/11 suspicious. But they were quite attacks. According to a Forbes vague about what or where article, we spent $300 million a the danger was, or what to be day to finance that war for more cautious or suspicious about. The than 20 years, a total of over $2 underlying message delivered trillion. was: “Go through your day being Secondly, we attacked Iraq very afraid!” and pursued that war These insidious from 2003 to 2011. The messages were meant administration yelled to keep us in a state “Iraq has weapons of of terror. Why? They mass destruction; we allowed the government must attack!” and we to do anything it wanted forked up $2 trillion to retaliate. That fear for that war as well. It allowed us to agree to two worked, though. Frank useless wars far worse After seven years the Sanitate than what happened on war ended, and Iraq The author 9/11. Extreme fear creates had no weapons of mass lives in Santa destruction. It was easy extreme anger. Barbara We started a war in to achieve that objective, Afghanistan to try to however, since they didn’t get rid of the Taliban have those weapons to who supported Al-Qaeda. begin with! (Oops!) Unfortunately, what I just said in U.S. casualties in that war are the last sentence was our entire estimated at 4,500, or 1½ times game plan. We had no idea of more than the 9/11 attacks. Total exactly what we wanted to do, death estimates range from how we were going to do it, how 150,000 to 400,000. The midpoint, we would know if we achieved it, 275,000, equals 92 9/11 attacks. or what we would do after it. The As I said, I am not diminishing results: The Taliban were more the 9/11 anguish we felt. However, firmly in charge when we left that terror allowed us to bring after 20 years. terror and death to perhaps half In the war, 6,294 U.S. military a million people! This is not what and contractors died, which America is about! Yet, that’s the equals two 9/11 attacks. Total way we operate. Why?

Part of the answer lies with the media, especially TV news networks. Did it ever occur to you that there is not enough news in the whole world to fill in 18 hours of news broadcast time every single day? Fifteen minutes used to be adequate, then a half hour, then an hour. The news stations have to do something to attract us, to bring us in. They have to tell us a story, one that engages our emotions. They must produce fear and anger, sometimes terror — and once in a while, love. Why? Because viewers like that! Kill the bad guys! Save the good guys! Oops, more bad guys. We hate it. But we keep tuning in. I suspect that network management sits down every day to decide: “Will today be a fear day, or an anger day, a terror day or a hope day?” They throw in “hope,” otherwise eventually nobody will watch. They then manage content accordingly. They structure the news/entertainment for the same goal that every other business strives for: to make money. I am switching from The Beatles (“I read the news today, oh boy!”) to John Prine (“Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country . . . eat a lotta peaches”).

Crops do fine without subsidies

Continued from Page C3 competitor to succeed over them.” “These are our tax dollars,” he added. “We work really hard for them. They should go to things we need: essential government services, roads, schools, police, fire. ... It’s just not the role of the government to give money to big corporations.” Two years later, IKEA still hasn’t created all the jobs they promised, and several local furniture stores closed. “Such programs begin with good intentions,” documentary host Johan Norberg pointed out, “but they result in unintended consequences.” He covers another handout with nasty unintended consequences: farm subsidies. Farm Bill supporters claim handouts and special crop

insurance deals are needed to guarantee America’s stable food supply. That’s bunk. Fruit and vegetable farmers get no subsidies. There are no shortages of apples or pears. Crops do fine without subsidies. “Only the big guys who have the resources” get subsidies, explained Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy. Some are not even American companies. “The largest pork producer in the U.S., Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods, increased consumer prices,” said Norberg. “Yet they still benefited from the government subsidy system, heavily lobbying to keep feed prices low. It’s estimated that in 2019 alone, agribusiness spent over $135 million on lobbying.” It’s worth spending $135 million to get billions in return. By contrast, Jeff Hawkins spends nothing on lobbying.

Mr. Hawkins owns a farm in Indiana. He sells chicken to restaurant owner Pete Eshleman. The Indiana legislature asked Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Eshleman to give a presentation on farmer’s markets and local restaurants. When they finished speaking, Indiana politicians told them that selling chicken directly to restaurants is “illegal.” The Indiana Farm Bureau, State Poultry Association and Pork Producers Association all testified in favor of banning direct farm-torestaurant sales. “They basically came up with a story that small farms processing chicken on the farm is a health risk,” Mr. Eshleman complained. What really happened was that bigger, politically connected farms used the legislature to ban competition. But Mr. Hawkins’ chicken was popular. His customers complained on social media and

flooded the phone lines of state representatives. In a rare twist, the politicians gave in. Now, said Mr. Norberg, “restaurants like Pete Eshelman’s can serve locally sourced poultry, and neighbors have a choice in the food that they eat.” It was a small victory against America’s anti-freedom, pro-big business, welfare-for-the-rich regulations. You can watch Mr. Norberg’s full documentary at freetochoosenetwork.org. John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2021 by JFS Productions Inc.

Enacting such a policy would send a clear price signal KELLEY

Continued from Page C3 Post. “The suffering that is here and now is because we have not heeded the warnings sufficiently.” The latest IPCC climate science assessment confirms that these events are only a mild preview of the decades ahead unless the world takes decisive action to drastically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. The message is clear: Time is up to address climate

change. Now the budget reconciliation process in Congress offers us a chance for meaningful action to calm our climate. The reconciliation menu now includes a carbon fee-and-dividend provision. Our leading economists recommend this policy approach. It would significantly reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, grow the economy, save lives and protect households from higher energy prices. A fee would be placed on fossil fuels at the point of production or

import. The initial fee per ton of C02 equivalent emissions would be increased annually thereafter. Net fees would be returned to American households on a per-capita basis as a dividend. Finally, a border adjustment would assess a fee or rebate on goods traded with countries without a comparable carbon price. Enacting such a policy would send a clear price signal to entrepreneurs and existing businesses to invest in a clean-energy economy

and protect lower and middleincome households through the distribution of net dividends. It would also create jobs, as the dividend puts money back into local economies, and would discourage domestic businesses from relocating where they can emit more C02. The U.S. and nations around the world must go big on solutions, or we will all suffer unimaginable climate consequences. Urge your senators to support carbon pricing. Let’s calm our climate now!

Mayor Murrillo could have curtailed the behavior DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 found no housing solution after the current “lease agreement” expires in November. Reading between the lines, we wager that the nonprofits and city staff will request $4.8 million to hold them over for another year. That is until they can get a portion of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed $2.75 billion to expand Project Homekey, a homeless housing initiative. Recall the up to 25 homeless placements at a cost of $480,00 for 15 hotel rooms for 6 months? Same players, same scenario. What happened to the housing for those 15-25 people? What gain can be shown for the money we spent? Where is the progress report? Where is the accountability? When Councilmember Eric Friedman brought up family reunification, Brad Fieldhouse of Citi Net proudly responded, “… one person is now back home in Alaska...”! Who is controlling the city of Santa Barbara? Is it city staff, the city manager, city council or the Democratic Party? The taxpayer’s opinions are discounted and irrelevant, except for when it is time to pay the tab. Then we are

asked to step up to the plate, again. Speaking of the Democratic Party, we can’t remember when the Democrats have shown such a house divided. Locally the Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County has endorsed Deborah Schwarz for mayor, Kristin Sneddon for re-election to the District 4 council seat, and Nina Johnson for the District 6 seat for City Council. But the Democratic Central Committee has endorsed Cathy Murrillo for mayor, and Meagan Harmon and Kristin Sneddon for City Council. There are many forums for the upcoming city council race all by Zoom, which creates numerous opportunities to make an informed decision. Some of them include: The Riviera Association - City Council District 4, today – 2:454:40 p.m.; League of Women Voters – City Council District 6, Wednesday, 6 p.m.; the mayoral candidates’ forum Sept. 30; the Downtown Rotary Mayoral Oct 1; and the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce and Association of Realtors’ mayoral forum on Oct. 18, 5 to 6:30 p.m. We must comment on the unfair treatment of Matt “Rat” Kilrain during the mayor’s forum conducted by Noozhawk and Santa Barbara Talks. Mr. Kilrain was never given a chance to answer the questions posed to the other

candidates and instead was asked about his campaign website. Even if you don’t think he is qualified, he has the right to be treated fairly and equally. We were shocked that the moderators were so dismissive of him. Not one candidate spoke up on Mr. Kilrain’s behalf. Mayor Murrillo could have curtailed the behavior, especially after two years of her preaching the need for equity and equality in government, coupled with how she promotes her abilities as the perfect leader. On the other hand, her treatment toward speakers during public comment and her body language toward her colleagues during the Zoom City Council meetings speaks volumes. Did You Know? politely requests that all the moderators of the upcoming forums to please show respect equally to the candidates even if you don’t agree with their positions. After all, they did the paperwork and garnered the required signatures to be on the ballot. Zoom meetings are convenient, but the human element and the importance of the speaker’s concern is lost, as well as for some of the zoom member’s attention. During the Single Family Design Review Board meeting, the vice chair followed up on another board member’s previous

inquiries regarding when they will reconvene in public. The County Bowl is open, we can go to the movies. When will we meet in person? The staff said, “No plans are considered to reconvene with the public at this time.” The chair of the Single Family board remarked his dinner plans were canceled because one of his vaccinated guests has COVID-19 and reminded everyone that we must be careful. Let’s do remind everyone to be careful. Careful with our city, careful with who we chose as leaders for our future. Careful with how we build and plan our surroundings, and careful with our past. It costs a lot to care. It takes time, energy and diligent information gathering to arrive at the best solution, especially with egos involved. It’s thankless and frustrating, but it’s worthwhile and there is no other choice. “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will be the end of the Republic.” — Benjamin Franklin Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

The media down plays all of it SCHULTE

Continued from Page C1 the propaganda about how we need to show compassion. We don’t need to show anything. If you go back to leaving the people in Mexico for processing, we can slow the leak. Then finish the darn wall. Enough about that’s who we are. We are not the security blanket for the world. Toss in another 60,000 or more immigrants from Afghanistan whom we literally gave a free ride and placed them in the belly of our country and of whom we have no idea who they are and how many of them have long-term aspirations to kill Americans, and we are just plain stupid. Or I should say our “leaders” are just plain stupid. And finally, America’s real enemy within are our own Democrats, who continue to blatantly allow and support this ongoing undermining of America. Who in their right mind condones the massive free flow

of drugs, human trafficking, slavery, planting foreign terrorists in our home? Who thought it was a good idea to leave more than $80 billion in military equipment behind to the very people we had been fighting for 20 years in Afghanistan? Was it a “goodbye and thank you for killing our soldiers” gift? Stupid isn’t a strong enough word. And yet, the media down plays all of it. It moves on. We say it all the time, if the roles were reversed and a Republican president had pulled such a massive blunder, our ears would be bleeding from the nonstop coverage. And you think the stories of children being used in porn or held as slaves or turned into drug runners wouldn’t be in your face 24/7? Why are things of such critical magnitude turned political and not reported as evil? The real humanitarian crisis is the American people. It’s insane! Or as our illustrious president would say, “Not a joke.”

Jefferson strove to make a ‘more perfect union’ CORNER

Continued from Page C1 few months after Pearl Harbor, leaving my mother and his two daughters, to become a war correspondent for an America he cherished. I thought of my Swedish immigrant grandparents coming to America in their 20s. Of Thomas Jefferson, with whom I shared grandparents, James Keith and Mary Randolph, and how Jefferson strove to make a “more perfect union” through strength, common sense and the brilliance of his pen. Most of all, I realized that I was too American to flee to a continent that had drifted so far to the political left. Even Switzerland wasn’t the country

I’d begun to also call home decades before. Richard and I realize we’re too old to pick up stakes and move to Switzerland again. That time had passed. The loss of personal freedom, fear and the evil machinations of our clueless local, state and federal leaders — especially the one who looks at his watch to check the time as 13 bodies return from defending America — consume much of our daily thoughts. We wonder who of the present Alphabet Soup Generation will remember where they were on Aug. 31, 2021 when America lost its honor, its values and its way. We hope all. Time is everything if we are to recapture the America of old.

President Biden has ‘great confidence’ in Gen. Milley HAMMER

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“allegedly” is perhaps strictly necessary to describe Gen. Milley’s actions, it is worth noting that Gen. Milley’s office responded to the leak by issuing a nonapology “apology.” Gen. Milley’s “calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping with (his) duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability,” the response statement from spokesperson Col. Dave Butler read. There was, in short, no denial, which all but assuredly means the allegations from “Peril” are true. And since the statement, President Joe Biden has resisted manifold calls for Gen. Milley’s resignation, including one from Gen. Milley’s former boss, former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, and even one from the notorious anti-Trump former National Security Council staffer Alexander Vindman. President Biden has instead pledged that he has “great confidence” in Gen. Milley. There could not possibly be a clearer example of how much the American ruling class is drunk on power and of how little it cares for any and all obstacles standing in the way of its accumulation and exercise of that power. It also just so happens that, in this instance, those obstacles take the form of the quintessential defining feature of what usually separates a democracy or a republican form of governance from a dictatorship: ultimate civilian control of the military. In undermining that ultimate civilian control, Gen. Milley and his apologists are playing with fire. How bitterly ironic, too, that the same left-wingers who opposed President Trump on ostensibly “fascist” or “authoritarian” grounds while simultaneously preaching

about the imperative to save our American “democracy” are now the ones who, seemingly without fail, have taken to defending a Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who has taken a blowtorch to the very definition of “democracy.” Gen. Milley is, of course, the same man who has openly defended the merits of studying critical race theory in the military and, in general, seems far more preoccupied with preening for holier-than-thou wokesters than he does with ensuring the U.S. Armed Forces are adequately prepared to hunt down and kill America’s enemies in the most efficient way possible. In short, as National Review’s Dan McLaughlin tweeted: “To Mark Milley, the General Lee who has been dead for 151 years is a dire threat, but the General Li who commands the world’s largest army on behalf of a murderous tyranny is a chum.” That is damning almost beyond words. Gen. Milley’s direct attack on civilian control of the military is but the latest indication that our wokeist ruling class will take no prisoners in its systemic assault upon the very pillars of the American constitutional order. From Trump-era “deep state” malfeasance to imperious progressive judging to a woke Joint Chiefs chairman feeling justified in removing the duly elected commander in chief from the military chain of command, the ruling class has now thoroughly revealed the depths to which it is willing to sink in order to enact its agenda and force its political opposition to bend the knee. Eyes wide open, the onus is now on the deplorables to resist such an anti-constitutional — indeed, anti-American — trampling. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.