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Tribute honors 13 fallen troops Santa Barbara Elks Lodge program salutes those who died Aug. 26 in Afghanistan By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

Sgt. Nicole L. Gee of the U.S. Marine Corps posted a photo of herself on Instagram, holding a baby in Afghanistan. The caption read, “I love my job.” “One of Sgt. Gee’s photos, one of her last, shows her near a cargo plane as a line of people waited to board from the back,” speaker Drew Wakefield told a large crowd Saturday in the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge parking lot. Sgt. Gee and others in the U.S. military helped Americans and Afghans during evacuation efforts in Kabul. And she and 12 other young U.S. troops remained dedicated to those efforts right up to the last moment of their lives, cut short by the explosion of an ISIS bomb on Aug. 26. Photos of all 13 troops stood on a long table

facing the crowd and a row of American flags as Mr. Wakefield spoke of the troops’ heroism and courage on a sunny but windy day. Every so often, the wind would blow down one of the photos, but someone sitting in the front row of the audience would immediately get up and put the picture back up. As he looked out on an audience that included veterans in uniform, Mr. Wakefield praised the fallen troops for their heroism and courage. His keynote address was part of the “13 Fallen: A Warriors’ Tribute” program. Mr. Wakefield started his talk by defining heroism and courage. Then he quoted John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” Mr. Wakefield noted the 13 fallen troops went a step further. “These great, brave, heroic warriors — these American soldiers — laid down their lives for people they did not even know in a country

that probably a few years ago, they could not point out on a map,” he said. “Dedication, respect, heroism, bravery — add that all up, and it says, ‘American serviceman or service woman,’ ” Mr. Wakefield said. In addition to Sgt. Gee, the fallen troops consisted of 10 Marines — Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, Cpl. Hunter Lopez, Cpl. Daegan W. Page, Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui — and Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak (assigned to a Marine regiment at Camp Pendleton) and Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss. All 13 were brave heroes, Mr. Wakefield said, later discussing each of them in detail. In addition to his speech, “13 Fallen: A Please see TRIBUTE on A3

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Drew Wakefield speaks in front of the placards listing the biographies of the 13 American servicemen and women who died in the August 26 Kabul Airport bomb attack during a ceremony honoring their lives on Saturday.

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The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will hear an update on workforce housing needs during its regular meeting this Tuesday. According to a board agenda letter, “workforce housing” refers to accommodations for the “missing middle,” or a segment of the population that cannot afford market-rate housing and are not eligible for government subsidies. In Santa Barbara County, these are often workers who are critical to the community’s infrastructure — police officers, firefighters, school teachers, electricians and restaurant staff. In a recent report from Realtor. com, Santa Barbara County ranked as the number one county in the entire country “where home prices have outpaced salaries since fourth quarter 2019.” In addition, assessor data from the last decade found that the median single-family home price in each of the county’s housing markets (South Coast, Santa Ynez, Lompoc, Santa Maria, Cuyama) varies from $930,000 on the South Coast to $30,000 in Cuyama. “This precludes households earning less than above moderateincome from accessing housing near South Coast job centers, forcing longer commutes to work,” the board agenda letter states. The letter also explains that housing development needs have fallen short of goals established

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his column contains an analysis expressed by Mr. Eringer, a longtime author with vast experience in investigative journalism. That analysis is in addition to the comments expressed by the authoritative sources. It is no secret that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, its natives having seen out the Brits, Russians and now the Americans, ejected each time and replaced by a terrorist organization even worse than the one before. What well-armed empires failed to comprehend is that conventional warfare does not apply to Afghanistan because it is not a country but a cluster of tribes, below which are clans, below which are warlords. Sometimes these tribes, clans and warlords get along with one another. Often they do not. In other words, there isn’t any one tribe with which you can deal and hope to bring stability to the entire region. So the first mistake made by the U.S. government was engaging certain Taliban leaders during the Doha meetings with a view to making a deal that would cover all members of the “constellation of franchises” known liberally as the Taliban. A senior intelligence analyst for the Department of Defense who was —and still is — deeply involved in evacuating and now exfiltrating U.S. citizens and qualified Afghans from Afghanistan told The Investigator, “This massive miscalculation was exploited by the Taliban who went along with the delusion because of their designs to conquer the country. The Taliban is a constellation of franchises loosely aligned for a single ideological objective: to eject the infidels from their lands and install an Islamic republic.” This source has been with DoD for more than 20 years and specializes in logistics. After Joe Biden moved into the White House, the Doha talks continued without the “retaliatory conditions” insisted upon by the Trump administration. Also, there’s this: To negate the necessity of involving Congress in a treaty process, the Biden strategy was to simply hand Afghanistan to China and make it “their tar-baby,” explained the senior intelligence analyst. “China was given the task to heal the dog and all iterations thereof. China has a long and esteemed reputation for dog healing.” In exchange, China would reap a rich abundance of the copper and lithium it needs

to produce computer chips, automobiles whopper. and electronics and thereby quell growing Hamid Karzai International Airport in civil unrest by revving up its economy. Most Kabul has no integrated (electronic and important of all to the Chinese is the trillions automatic) radar, and, by extension, it has of dollars in rare earth minerals for which limited airlift windows. China’s tank is running rather low. “The logistics alone don’t support it,” a Add to the mix: Pakistan, colonel with 30 years in the U.S. which is closely aligned with military and senior member China as an insurance policy of Afghan aviation control, against border disputes with our second source, told The India. Moreover, China’s “belt Investigator. “Kabul was strictly initiative” has resulted in visual. Which means you can’t billions of dollars in investments stack aircraft.” in Pakistan, and now their day According to this evacuations has come to pay up — lest their logistics expert who has been economy becomes devastated by under contract to DoD, the a landlord with little patience separation distance (vertical and will foreclose on what and horizontal) between aircraft China is owed, according to the was 22-26 miles (as opposed to THE INVESTIGATOR the usual radar standard of 2 analyst. It is funding from Pakistan miles) due to the manual 1950s ROBERT ERINGER that supports and enables the system on which Kabul air Taliban because the Pakistanis traffic controllers were specially consider large swaths of trained, approach radar Afghanistan their own territory stolen from notwithstanding. Furthermore, C-17 transport them and they, like the Chinese, have designs planes generally carry 200 civilian passengers on its natural resources. but will extend capacity to 350 for military “So,” the senior intelligence analyst personnel, max. continued, “Biden decides America can ill “Add to that,” said the colonel, “space was afford this conflict, the money should go limited to park ’em and load ’em.” instead to building social utopias at home And there’s this: Certain people on the — and let China become the next graveyard ground confirmed that a number of departing member. However, a fly snuck into the aircraft were not fully loaded. Sometimes bouillabaisse. And now it is backstroking planes were only half full. badly.” Another logistics issue: “No way that number How’s that? of people came through the gates to the “The Biden administration made two airport,” said the colonel. “It is an impossibility major miscalculations. First, believing that given the amount of time the gates were the Taliban could guarantee an orderly exit physically closed and the number of people by the United States. Two, that the Afghan that were stopped at the outer perimeter and government could hold onto power until could not get through.” the evacuation plan could be executed. Back to the senior intelligence analyst, who Instead, the Taliban said, ‘No deal, you China told us, “Just do the math. Say you can cram chumps and American fools, we are taking 400 passengers per flight. Do you have any over immediately and taking possession of idea how many sorties it would take to move everything including air fields, weapons and 127,000 people? One must also deduct the time hostages until you folks are gone like the wind.’ when nothing was departing, such as when the The Taliban shortened the runway by which airport gates were completely closed owing America was to take off from, rendering it to threats, bombings, etc. On top of that, we impossible for our evacuation to be orderly.” did not even have a database that consisted of The result, as we now know, was a failure 127,000 people!” of catastrophic proportions. (Excuse us if So how many people were actually we do not use the word “non-success” — an evacuated? Orwellian newspeak so fashionable among “Roughly, around 30,000, probably fewer, Biden administration spokespersons in the more like 27,000.” wake of a rash of policy failures.) The analyst said the White House, State “There was no orderly exit,” continued Department and Department of Defense our source, “because it was all based on a knowingly and deceptively misled the fallacy along with massive political and policy American people into believing their false miscalculations.” narrative. Which brings us to the real Big Lie: The And it also means that the so-called U.S. government announcing that it evacuated “Greatest Airlift Since Berlin” is nothing more 127,000 persons. than a bunch of bunkum. The government did not. “But that’s not all,” continued the analyst. This was a big fat bold-faced lie, according “The other lie is that just a few Americans to two authoritative military sources directly were left behind. The administration’s entire involved with evacuation efforts. premise is based on a fallacy that we truly The proof is not in the pudding but in the logistics, which is key to unraveling this Please see INVESTIGATOR on A5

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Elizabeth Rose Bryson sings “Proud to be An American” during “13 Fallen: A Warriors’ Tribute” Saturday at the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge.

‘When everyone else is running, they stand firm’ tribute

Continued from Page A1 Warriors Tribute” featured Pipe Major Tom Strelich and the Santa Barbara Bagpipers performing “Amazing Grace” and third-grader Sage Henson leading the Pledge of Allegiance. Buglers Howard Hudson and Bob Burtness played “Taps.” Various organizations were involved in the presentation of wreaths. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1649 were involved with the honor guard and flag folding. And a rifle salute was conducted in honor of the 13 fallen troops. Civil Air Patrol Squadron No. 131 performed the retirement of colors during a day that emphasized patriotism. Elizabeth Rose Bryson sang “Proud to Be an American,” and without any prompting, the audience joined her for the chorus. “I was honored to be a part of this,” Mrs. Bryson, whose grandfather served in the military, told the News-Press later. She added she felt humbled by the courage shown by the fallen troops. During her invocation and

benediction, Elks Lodge Chaplain Lisa Mathiasen prayed for military personnel and first responders. And during his address, Mr. Wakefield asked the audience if they would remember the fallen troops and their families in their thoughts and prayers. He stressed the importance of that with a series of questions. Each time, the audience answered with an enthusiastic “We will!” Mr. Wakefield also discussed what went wrong during the U.S. withdrawal. “The airport was supposed to be secure. The evacuation that was planned was supposed to be smooth. But we all know that was far from what had happened,” he said. “But that did not matter to these fine, wonderful, incredible young soldiers,” Mr. Wakefield said. “When everybody was running around and there was confusion, left and right, and pandemonium had beseeched us, the United States of America’s soldiers, our brave men and women, did just the opposite of what the crowd was doing. “When everyone else is running, they stand firm, they stand fast,” Mr. Wakefield said. “Why?

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Because of patriotism, heroism, dedication to service.” Mr. Wakefield described each of the fallen troops, such as Staff Sgt. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City. “He was a former high school football player from Utah. ...His fellow Marines said he was a heck of a leader.” All the rest were in their early to mid-20s. Mr. Wakefield recalled what a mother said about her son, Lance Cpl. Merola of Rancho Cucamonga. “He’s one of the best kids ever — kind and loving to every single person.” On the day Lance Cpl. Nikoui of Norco died, “he sent his father a video of him talking about the Afghan children and giving them candy in a Kabul airport, just to ease their pain,” Mr. Wakefield said. The speaker quoted the mayor of Lawrence, Mass., who said “the entire city was heartbroken” over the death of the Marine who came from there, Sgt. Pichardo. And Mr. Wakefield spoke of Lance Cpl. Schmitz of St. Charles, Mo. Family members recalled he always had a smile on his face. email: dmason@newspress.com

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Elizabeth Douds passed away peacefully surrounded by her family. She was born in Gilmore ,Texas and was the third of Clemmie and Mildred Mathis’ seven children. She was predeceased by her loving husband William Douds, sister Marguerite McMillan, brothers Clemmie Mathis, Jr. and Michael Mathis.

Born Ramona Joan McAuliffe on November 29, 1927 in Omaha, Nebraska, she met the love of her life, Jack Foran, while working in Chicago. They married on May 22, 1954 and moved to the East Coast.

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Douglas “Doug” Johnston passed away peacefully on August 25, 2021 at age 96. He was preceded in death by his wife Margaret “Marg” Johnston. Doug is survived by his niece Kathy Koel. Doug was born in Elkhorn, Manitoba, Canada to Clarence and Jean (Gillespie) Johnston. He served in the Canadian Army in 1943-44. In 1953 he relocated to Santa Barbara and was a resident for 6 years. He spent the Ànal 23 years as an occupant of Samarkand. For many years Doug and Marg traveled the world with square dance friends. They also taught round dancing and performed for Samarkand and other senior living facilities in Santa Barbara County. Along with Marg, he led the Rainbow Rounds for 17 years. Doug was co-owner of Pyramid Tile Company for 39 years before retiring in 1994. As a partner in the business, he served as a management executive and accountant.

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Arnold Jerome Rakowski “Rak” or “Boppa” of Goleta, CA, passed away on April 27, 2021 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after a brief illness. He was 85. Born in Chicago on September 30, 1935 to Rose and Bruno Rakowski. He was proceeded in death by his parents, bother Bruno Rakowski and sister Alice Jubert. He attended school in Chicago until the family moved to Indianapolis in 1951, where he attended Arsenal Tech until 1953. Arnold served his country in the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard from 1958 to 1960. He began his employment with General Motors in 1953 DQG ZRUNHG LQ WKH $OOLVVRQ 'HIHQVH 6\VWHPV DQG ÀQDOO\ 'HOFR ZKLFK EURXJKW KLV IDPLO\ to Goleta, CA in 1961. After retiring in 1994 he worked as a Marshall at the Sandpiper Golf Course. Arnold was a longtime golf player and won many local Amateur titles. He golfed at the St. Andrews in Scotland and Ballbunion Golf Club in Ireland. He was also had a lifelong passion of ice hockey and played many years in the Senior League here in Santa Barbara. Arnie was also a very involved member of the Goleta Historical Society. Funeral services were held on May 5th at St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Goleta, where Arnold was a founding member. Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Mrs. Joan Rakowski: two daughters, Mrs. Anita O’Berg and Mrs. Annette Taylor, both of Goleta; a son, Joseph Rakowski of Santa %DUEDUD D EURWKHU 3DXO 5DNRZVNL RI 7HKDFKDSL &$ DQG ÀYH JUDQGFKLOGUHQ +LV ROGHVW granddaughter, Zoa Ann Rakowski joined him in heaven on May 6, 2021. Arnold may be remembered by donations to St. Mark’s Parish or the Goleta Historical Society.

VADER, Dorothy

Dorothy Joan Vader, 90, died Sept. 19, 2021, after years of grappling with dementia, in Santa Barbara. She was born in the winter in 1931 in rural Iowa to struggling farmers Harry and Alice Fechter just as the Great Depression was really getting started. Named after a favorite aunt, Dorothy was the adored baby, doted on by an older brother and two sisters, and the family prospered after a move to Minneapolis, where her father started a radiator repair shop on Lake Street. After graduating from Central High School, she worked as a secretary and paid, with her own money, the impressive sum of $100 for a new red wool coat. Dorothy enrolled in the University of Minnesota but soon was introduced to Frank Vader, a recent UM grad, at the Marigold Ballroom in Minneapolis and that was that. They married in September 1952, honeymooned at Niagara Falls and in Maine, called each other “Perk,” and eventually had three girls and a boy. She raised the children while her husband was frequently away on business trips, and relocated the family several times -- to Montana, Illinois, Michigan, back to Minnesota and then back to Michigan -- as his career with General Motors demanded. Dorothy became expert at packing and moving, and wherever the family landed she pursued her interests in art, photography, horseback riding, and writing. She was a voracious reader and a fan of Hemingway and William F. Buckley Jr., as well as Broadway musicals, “Jeopardy!,” the Minnesota Vikings, Janis Joplin, and the paintings of John Singer Sargent and Cathy Quiel. Bridge was also a passion, and Dorothy won several championships. In 1990 Dorothy and Frank sold their house in Brighton, Mich., and days before they were to move to the West Coast, Frank died suddenly of heart failure, at home, while his wife tried to revive him. A widow at age 59, Dorothy forged a new life in Santa %DUEDUD UHOLVKLQJ WKH EHDXW\ DQG ÀQH ZHDWKHU 6KH WUDYHOOHG WKH ZRUOG SOD\HG JROI worked at mastering watercolors. A safari in Tanzania with Lorraine Hansen sparked a desire to paint Africa’s wildlife, and in 2010 Dorothy had a solo show of her African works at the Faulkner Gallery in the Santa Barbara Library. She also put her artistic talents to work in renovating and improving each of her three successive Santa Barbara homes. In her last years she lived in the Valle Verde community. Dorothy is survived by four children -- Penny Eardley (Ward Buelow), Julie Vader, Diane Vader (Marc Schwartz), and Drake Vader (Patricia), and four grandchildren -Kirk Vader, Jessey Ouillon, Alison Schwartz, and Kai Vader. She is also survived by her sister Norma Westman and numerous nieces and nephews. The family wants to thank the caregivers at The Grove @ Valle Verde, especially Angela Sabogal for her loving kindness; Assisted Hospice Care, and BrightStar Care. No memorial service is planned; please consider signing up to participate in the UCSF Brain Health Registry at brainhealthregistry.org to help this important research to conquer dementia.

BAILEY, Marjorie L. Marjorie L. Bailey passed away peacefully on August 31, 2021 at the age of 92. Marjorie was born in La Crosse, WI in 1929 to Harry and Ruth Kumm but spent her childhood in Houston, MN. In 1942, the family moved to an almond ranch in Paso Robles, CA where Marjorie graduated high school and went on to attend UCSB. In 1948 she met the love of her life, Joseph W. Bailey, on a blind date at East Beach. They married July 15, 1950 and moved into a home they built and lived in for 71 years. When the National Guard called up Joe in 1950 after only two weeks of marriage, Marjorie had to leave her remaining student teaching and go to work to save the house. The next year son Bill arrived and daughter Julie followed two years later. Marjorie loved her family, her friends and her country passionately. While her husband Joe built J.W Bailey Construction Co. into a successful construction company, Marjorie took care of the home front, raising two children, and donating her time and energy to many charities, including serving on the Board of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. Over the years, Marjorie and Joe hosted many BBQs for friends and family in their patio with contests of bocce ball and croquet taking place. Her friendships were made for life and included the bridge gals and her children’s friends and families. A child of the Depression, Marjorie learned to ski, swim and backpack when her children did. The family loved Mammoth Mountain and spent many years skiing and exploring the beauty of the Eastern Sierras. With Joe, she traveled to many foreign lands, but always best loved traveling in America and coming home to beautiful Santa Barbara. Besides her husband, Joe, of 71 years, Marjorie leaves her two children, William (Bill) Bailey and Julie Bischoff; two grandsons, Shaun Barbee, Kyler Barbee, (Jessy); her great-granddaughter, Lakeyn, and many beloved nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Lynne McClanahan (Rex), brother Larry Kumm (Betty), brother Gerald Kumm (Marianne), niece Karen Morris and her greatniece Julie Loomis. A private graveside service was held on September 3, 2021. A Memorial Service is being scheduled for late October. We wish to thank her two main caretakers, Donna and Natalee, the Samarkand Smith Hall staff along with Visiting Nurses and Hospice of Santa Barbara for their kind and loving care. Donations in Marjorie’s name may be made to the: Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara The Ruth B. Kumm Memorial Scholarship Fund PO Box 3620 Santa Barbara, CA 93130

Ramona Foran died peacefully in Santa Barbara on September 23, 2021, which would have been her husband’s 97th birthday.

April 19, 1933 - July 22, 2021

Doug enjoyed playing pool on a regular basis and was proud to have captured many tournaments including some at Samarkand. He was rarely seen without a sweater and his name badge pinned to it. He will be missed by his dear friends. A celebration of Doug’s life will be held on Saturday, October 9 at 2:00 pm at the Samarkand Chapel.

WILKIE, Michael L. 1941 - 2021

Michael Wilkie, a businessman and resident of Chicago, died unexpectedly on September 16, 2021 at the age of 80. Michael is survived by his wife, Teri Wilkie, his children Serena, Grant, Austin, Parker and his step-children Constantine, Christian, Alexander and 9ictoria his Àve grandchildren Judah, Ajah, Helanie, Alexandra and Thomas; his sister and brother-in-law Bonnie and Jon Henricks, as well as his nieces and nephews and their families. Michael was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 21, 1941 to Leighton and Adele Wilkie. He grew up at Willow Brook, a dairy farm in Long Grove, Illinois, as well as Montecito, California. He attended high school at Le Rosey, a Swiss international school in Rolle, Switzerland, as well as Black Fox Military Academy in Los Angeles, California. Michael became an avid swimmer at Black Fox, then went on to attend the University of Southern California. He graduated from USC with a major in Business, then moved on to work for his family business, DoALL, an industrial machine tool manufacturer and distributor. Michael worked for and ran the business for over 60 years, this year being his 60th. Michael was a loving husband, father, and brother. He was also an avid swimmer. At Black Fox Academy, he was fastest in the United States in the 200M freestyle in his age group. He went on to swim for USC’s swim team at the collegiate level, along with his brother-in-law Jon Henricks. Michael was a tremendous free diver and spearÀsherman. He traveled around the world diving and spearÀshing with his lifelong friend Jay Riffe. They competed and represented the United States in two international championships. Michael loved to travel and experience all adventures of life, and he always wanted to see, know and share more about the wonders of life just like his father and mother, Leighton and Adele, did. He had stories and a presence that could command a room with everyone’s respect and admiration. He would share and pass along his knowledge and experiences with his friends and family, who will carry on stories about his amazing life. Michael will be deeply missed by his family and friends who all knew and loved him. All services are private. For information call (708) 456-8300 or visit www. cumberlandchapels.com. To plant a memorial tree in honor of Michael L. Wilkie, please click on that website’s link to Heartfelt Sympathies Store.

She was the best mom in the world to her two children, John and Mary Jane, and a legendary teacher to countless other children. Ramona taught in the elementary schools of Holyoke and Boston, Massachusetts, between 1960 and 1969. Then the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where she taught seventh and eighth graders at St. Aloysius School between 1970 and 1995. After trying to retire, she became assistant kindergarten teacher until 2005. The kids adored her. She took wonderful care of Jack when his health started to decline in the 1990s and they moved together to Santa Barbara, California in December 2005. When Jack died in April 2007, she delighted in a wide circle of dear new friends with whom she played bridge and talked for endless hours, in the company of Galaxy, the black cat she doted on. She would more than occasionally beat Mary Jane and John in the many word games they played over the years. Her creativity shined through in the bulletin boards that graced her classrooms and the hand-made greeting cards that have remained precious possessions of friends and family for many years. She was a kind, loving, vital friend and loving mother and grandmother well into her 90s. She is survived by her children, her grandchildren Amal and Cerina Bhavnani, her son-in-law Bruce Bortin, her son’s former partner, Kum-Kum Bhavnani, her beloved nieces and nephews, and countless friends and former students all over the United States and beyond, for whom her memory will forever be a blessing.

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Born March 27, 1921, in Goodman, Wisconsin, to Caton and Eleanor Mount; died Sept. 17, 2021 in Santa Barbara, California. Harriette grew up in small towns in WI, where her father worked for the railroad. The family moved to Crandon, WI in her sophomore year of high school. After graduation, Harriette moved to Milwaukee to sing with “big bands.” During World War ll, she worked at the Allis Chalmers plant, assembling superchargers for military use. She returned to Crandon, and in 1950 she married her sweetheart Lawrence after he returned from his service as a Marine. In 1956, with three small children, they moved to Garden Grove, CA, where they settled to raise their family, which eventually totaled six children. In 1971, the family moved to Santa Barbara, CA. Mom was devoted to God, to our dad Lawrence, and to her family. She loved her Catholic faith, the Rosary, helping others, and all animals. She was a wonderful cook and baker, and our home was a welcoming place to all. She usually attended daily Mass at Holy Cross Church. She was an Altar Society member, and she enjoyed helping behind the scenes when anything needed to be done. For many years, our parents hosted a weekly prayer group and Rosary prayer group, fed the homeless, and visited convalescent and rehab hospitals. Mom was the best wife, mother, grandma, great-grandma, sister, aunt, and friend. She loved the spouses of her children and grandchildren as her own. She will be remembered always for her kindness, gentleness, and strong faith. She is survived by her children Theresa (Fred), Pat (Diane), Bernadette (Gerry), Madelon (Greg), Mary 7RP GDXJKWHU LQ ODZ -DQLH VHYHQWHHQ JUDQGFKLOGUHQ ÀIWHHQ JUHDW JUDQGFKLOGUHQ her only sibling, Kay, and many nieces, nephews, and dear friends. She was preceded in death by her husband Lawrence in 2011, her son Mike in 2012, and her former daughter-in-law Cyndi, also in 2012. A Rosary will be held at Holy Cross Catholic Church at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. It will be followed by the Funeral Mass at 11:00 a.m., and a graveside service at Calvary Cemetery.

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 95,720 acre-ft. Elevation 713.48 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 30.3 acre-ft. Inflow 16.0 acre-ft. State inflow 12.1 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. +0 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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A large crowd of pro-choice demonstrators make their opinions known at the Santa Barbara Courthouse on Saturday.

‘Make sure that Sacramento, Washington, D.C. and Texas hear us roar’ RALLY

Continued from Page A1 Tosh, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Central Coast, said Saturday. “Roe v. Wade is hanging by a thread.” “In this moment of darkness, we have to remember — movements are born from darkness,” she later added. “It’s our job to strive for the light, even when it is hard to see it. It’s our job to turn our pain into our power, and our anger into action.” Local participants began at De la Guerra Plaza and marched up State Street, holding signs with sayings like “Women’s rights are human rights” and “Abortion is health care.” The crowd eventually ended the march outside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, where they danced with members of World Dance for Humanity. Several local politicians marched alongside residents on Saturday, including State Sen. Monique Limón and Assemblymember Steve Bennett. Before the start of the march. Sen. Limón delivered an impassioned speech, vowing that she and Mr. Bennett would continue the fight to protect abortion access in California for years to come. “We are fighting for women to be able to talk to their medical providers and make the best decisions that they need to in the worst and scariest and most difficult of cases,” the senator told the crowd Saturday. “In California, we have fought and we will continue to fight not only to protect this right, but to ensure that we expand access, to ensure that

when women have to make decisions about their reproductive health, they have medical coverage, that they have copayments that are affordable or none, and ensure that they have access that’s within a driving distance. All of these things are made difficult in states like Texas, even when the life of a woman is at risk.” “Help me and stand strong and make sure that Sacramento, Washington, D.C. and Texas hear us roar. We will continue to fight for you in Sacramento,” she later added. Saturday’s march came just a few months before the Supreme Court is set to hear a case that many activists fear could lead to an overturn of Roe. v. Wade. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, considers Mississippi’s abortion ban and questions whether abortions before a fetus is viable is constitutional. The case will be heard by the court on Dec. 1. With the future of reproductive rights hanging in the balance, many supporters took to the streets of Santa Barbara on Saturday vowing to continue to fight for abortion access across the nation. Among the marching crowd was Beverley Brier, a local Santa Barbara resident who also marched for reproductive rights nearly 28 years ago. On Saturday she wore a shirt that said “Choice” in rainbow colors — the same shirt she wore when she marched on State Street in the 1990s. She was joined by her daughter, Lauri Baker, who also marched alongside her more than two decades ago. “I’m the older one in the group, and I’m

very shocked that we have to have this march again,” Ms. Brier told the NewsPress on Saturday. “I can’t believe it happened.” Ms. Baker, her daughter, held a sign that said “My arm is tired from carrying this sign since the ’70s. Protect safe legal abortion.” Ms. Baker told the NewsPress that the women “never stopped marching” and will continue to fight for

access to safe abortions. Local Santa Barbara resident Lisa Raphael was also among the more than a thousand residents who participated in Saturday’s march. She told the NewsPress on Saturday that “nobody should get in the middle of a woman and her doctor” when it comes to reproductive health. “There are a million different reasons

a woman has an abortion, and it’s no one’s business except that woman and her doctor,” Ms. Raphael said. “Everybody should have access to safe and healthy abortions,” she added. “I have a daughter, it’s very important to me that she has access to healthcare of any sort.” email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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know how many Americans remain in the country. We don’t. “The government’s number is based upon a ‘known’ number of citizens and green card holders who have sought assistance and not how many actually remain in the country and cannot send a distress signal because if they phone or email the Taliban will find them.” And what does our mass media, for the most part, report on this? They don’t. The mainstream media glosses over a catastrophic intelligence and evacuation failure in which 13 U.S. Marines were killed, more than 22 severely injured and 190 Afghans slaughtered in a suicide bomb attack that (much less reported) also included snipers firing rifles from building tops, according to the colonel. And if that’s not bad enough, our supposedly intelligence-supported military retaliated by murdering not a would-be “ISIS-K” suicide bomber, as President Biden so triumphantly announced, but an innocent aid worker

and his family members, including a number of children. Bottom line: 10 dead, seven of them kids. “The Taliban accomplished two evil deeds,” said the analyst. “First, they perpetuated the slow walk of humiliation of America by showing we are incompetent idiots in our targeting practices. Second, they blew up our error by leaking the event to the media.” Huh? The Taliban did this? We were told by our government that the suicide bomber was “ISIS-K.” But, no. According to this analyst working the situation 24/7, the atrocity was more likely a Taliban false-flag operation. (And, as we now know, misinformation to boot.) “The foolishness of giving away our Bagram airbase and having to use Kabul airport created the perfect ‘kill box’ through which Americans and others had to pass,” said the senior intelligence analyst. “Because, while the airport interior was controlled by the 82nd Airborne and Marines, the exterior beyond the gate was controlled by the Taliban.” The colonel had his own take on Bagram: “Giving up our air base there was the greatest strategic miscalculation

of all time. It was our eyes and ears in the whole region, Iran on one side, the Stans and Russia on another, Pakistan and India … it never should have been relinquished. Because now there is no way to observe anything going on in that part of Asia.” “The other idiotic mistake,” said the analyst, “was providing the Taliban with a ‘list of all manifested persons seeking passage from the checkpoints to the gates.’ We later learned that we had painted a target on the back of everyone named on the list seeking to reach us.” The Taliban refused to allow airport access to such persons, falsely claiming their papers were not in order. Then, with their names duly noted, these folks were later rounded up by the Taliban for execution, the analyst said. Back to the colonel. The fundamental problem, he said, was putting the Department of State in charge of the evacuation, which, he claimed “is a concept that runs alien to accepted practices, resulting in the worst screw-up I have ever seen in my life. The Defense Department has evacuation procedures and protocols that must be certified every two years. The State Department does not.

“All my military buddies are shaking their heads, asking, ‘Where was the Joint Chiefs’ head at, ceding control to State? Foreign Service officers can’t even balance their own checkbooks.’ They kept closing the airport gates, causing great stress and emotional trauma,” the colonel continued. “I can’t tell you how disappointed I am with the bureaucracy of the State Department.” At this juncture, the voice of this hardened colonel broke with emotion. “I almost cried when people with blue passports got through the Taliban but could then not get through our gates. That’s when we began disobeying orders by saving people.” The senior intelligence analyst concurred. “When the Department of State took over, they threw the evacuation playbook out the window and wanted to start from scratch, delaying the rollout plan by several weeks and, as a consequence, leaving folks to die a certain death.” The Investigator wrote to the State Department’s Office of Press Operations to question the department’s official evacuation number of 127,000, pointing out that two inside sources placed the figure at no more than

30,000. We received this response from press officer Nicole Thompson: “We refer you to Secretary (Antony) Blinken’s SFRC (Senate Foreign Relations Committee) and HFAC (House Foreign Relations Committee) testimony earlier this month, where he spoke extensively to our efforts in Afghanistan, including responding to several questions regarding numbers of individuals removed and remaining in Afghanistan.” In his sworn testimony before Congress, Secretary Blinken stated, under oath, “We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history, with 124,000 people evacuated to safety.” We also asked if the Department of State has a longstanding, tested protocol for evacuations from foreign countries and why, if not, State co-opted the Afghanistan evacuation away from the Defense Department. Ms. Thompson did not address this aspect of our query. Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail. com.

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Batting a thousand in spirit Westmont baseball team has become more victorious, but its head coach knows the legacy goes beyond numbers By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT COLLEGE WRITER

When Westmont head coach Robert Ruiz took over the baseball program in June 2009, he took over a program that historically was 220 games under .500. Westmont’s Russ Carr Field was still being renovated following damage from the Tea Fire, so when Ruiz and his longtime friend-turned-pitching coach Tony Cougoule first stepped on Russ Carr, it was nothing but dirt. Looking at a field without grass and a history book with room to grow, Ruiz refused to see it as anything but an endless chance of opportunity. “We’re not going to make excuses for all the things we don’t have,” said Ruiz in June 2009. “We’re going to be grateful for what we do have and become great with it.” Ruiz reflected on the progress of his program during an interview from February 2020, in which he said, “We put our heads down and put the work in, then four or five years down the road we hit that tipping point. From there, we started winning games and accomplishing things that had never been accomplished before.” For Ruiz and company, the never-before-seen accomplishments by Westmont baseball players would go far beyond the walls of Russ Carr field. In 2012, Westmont went to the GSAC tournament for the first time, and in 2014, the team won the GSAC tournament for the first time. Then, in 2015, the Warriors set a new wins record, going 4117, and becoming the first team in program history to win multiple games during the NAIA Opening Round. On May 13, 2015, the Warriors were one loss from elimination during the opening round. That day, left-hander Andrew Vasquez

fired seven innings of one-run ball while striking out 13 in a winning effort, buying the club one more day in the postseason. Vasquez, a senior transfer from UCSB, posted a record of 7-1 during 2015. The southpaw struckout 124 batters that season, the third-most in program history, while posting an ERA of 3.06 in 85.1 innings of work. Vasquez was then drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 32nd round of the MLB June Amateur draft, and in September 2018, he made his major league debut for the ball club. “I was down and out in my baseball career and I was blessed with an opportunity at Westmont,” reflected Vasquez. “Coach Ruiz and coach Cougoule welcomed me into the Westmont family and gave me another baseball life.” Vasquez pitched in 10 big league games for the Twins from 2018 to 2019, and since then had not stepped foot on a major league mound again until recently. Five days after being acquired in a minor league deal, Vasquez took the mound for the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers in San Francisco. Vasquez pitched twice over the three-game series between the two rivals competing for first place. The lefty threw two-thirds of an inning on Friday, before firing a 1-2-3 eighth inning on Sunday night. Vazquez ultimately struck out three Giants in an inning and two-thirds over the weekend. “After a rough 2019, I was struggling to get back to the big leagues,” said Vasquez, “but thinking back on that initial second chance from Westmont, I decided I wasn’t ever going to give up again. It’s hard to express everything that happened along the way, but a lot of it goes back to Westmont giving me that first second chance, and it was the reason I decided to come back to

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baseball.” “It has been so fulfilling to watch Andrew’s career unfold,” said Ruiz. “From being on the brink of his baseball career ending in college, to climbing the ranks of minor league baseball into the big leagues, it has been a remarkable story to follow.” Another member of the 2015 Westmont baseball team was a freshman by the name of Michael Stefanic. The Boise native immediately turned heads that season, as he was named to the All-GSAC team and was awarded a GSAC Gold Glove at second base. Stefanic hit .337 and collected 63 hits in 2015. The second baseman would collect 212 more hits over the next three seasons, to finish atop the program-record list with 275. “Mike embodies everything gritty in the game of baseball,” noted Ruiz. “He is a tough out at the plate, an intuitive defender and he is the same guy every day.” After graduating in 2018, Stefanic remained hopeful he would hear his name called during the June draft. However, the call never came, and Stefanic returned home and began contemplating the steps to getting a normal job. Before hanging up the spikes for good, Stefanic displayed that vintage grit that became his calling-card during college and made a tape of himself playing. He then sent the tape to members of all 30 MLB teams. Weeks later, the Westmont graduate received a call from then-Angels Director of Baseball Development Mike Gallego, who had seen the tape Stefanic sent out. In an article by The Athletic that highlights Stefanic’s journey, Gallego says, “To be honest with you, we were basically looking for some bodies at the time. And we were honest with him. When he got into town, we basically told him, ‘we don’t know long this is going to last’.” Stefanic was signed in July 2018. That year in Rookie Ball, he hit .351. The next year in Low-A he hit .333. After COVID-19 canceled

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“We put our heads down and put the work in, then four or five years down the road we hit that tipping point,” Westmont head baseball coach Robert Ruiz said. “From there, we started winning games and accomplishing things that had never been accomplished before.”

the minor league season in 2020, Stefanic returned in 2021 to hit .345 in Double-A. Currently, he is hitting .341 for the Salt Lake City Bees, the Angels Triple-A affiliate. To many, Stefanic is one overdue call away from being a major leaguer. “He has a million people in his corner because he did things and treated people the right way,” expressed Ruiz. “I am hopeful that he gets an opportunity in the big leagues because his intangibles are incredibly valuable, though hard to measure. It sure is difficult to argue with the numbers he has put up. We remain grateful for his contributions and legacy left on our program.” When Stefanic graduated from Westmont in 2018, right-hander Bailey Reid was a sophomore on the team with just 25.1 innings under his belt. Reid had originally tried out as a third baseman at a Westmont prospect camp, before arriving on campus in the fall of

2016. After watching Reid field grounders and throw across the diamond, coach Cougoule approached Ruiz as he continued to study the youngster. “That kid is never going to play third base for us, but he is going to throw 95 miles an hour for us someday,” Cougoule told him. In 2019 and 2020, Reid did not allow a single earned run in 24 appearances out of the Westmont bullpen. Reid developed into one of the most dominant bullpen arms in program history, in large part due to the mentorship of Cougoule. With hopes to maximize potential, Cougoule utilized methods from the now-popular Driveline Baseball program, years before the practice took the bigleague level by storm. Cougoule’s ability to develop talent at Westmont not only helped men such as Vasquez and Reid, but it also opened the door for him to get hired to coach professionally. In early 2020, Cougoule left Westmont after 10 years, after being offered a job to become a pitching coach in the Chicago Cubs organization. “In the fall of 2019 I got a message on Twitter from a person in the Cubs organization,” said Cougoule. “He asked if wanted to discuss my future in baseball, and he talked to me about their philosophy and how it coincided with things I was working on. It happened to be the director of pitching for the Cubs and next thing I knew, I got a formal offer to become a minor league pitching coach for the Cubs.” This year, in his first full minor league season, Cougoule has served as the pitching coach for the South Bend Cubs, the High-A affiliate of the organization. “I have had some pretty rare opportunities in this game,” said Cougoule. “Being able to build a program with a childhood friend and teammate for 11 years at Westmont was an unbelievable experience. Now in the present, it has been a great year for Westmont baseball at the professional level.”

Recently the year got even greater. After limiting batters to just six hits in his final 22 innings of collegiate baseball, Reid signed a contract with who else but the Chicago Cubs in 2020. After being unable to compete last season, and beginning 2021 in Low-A, Reid was called up to South Bend this past week, where was reunited with Cougoule once again. “From recruiting a player at age 16, and seeing him develop through college,” began Cougoule, “to now being in the same dugout in professional ball is surreal. Seeing his growth and getting to once again interact on a daily basis has been extremely rewarding.” “Getting to link up with Cougoule again has been pretty cool,” said Reid. “It’s almost like you don’t skip a beat after how long we were in uniform together at Westmont, and getting to do it again at this level is something I will always remember.” Since 2010, the Warriors are 84 games above .500, and they have won two GSAC Championships. While the on-the-field success has grown to new heights, Ruiz knows the legacy of the program goes beyond the numbers. “At the end of the day, our program stands for a lot more than total draft picks or trophies,” said Ruiz, now the winningest coach in program history, “but there is something so rewarding in seeing high quality people like Andrew, Mike and Bailey come out of our program and have success at the highest levels of our game. “Ultimately, we know that they embody the Warrior way. We trust that they will be a positive influence on and off the field with their teams, their communities and families. Westmont baseball is fortunate to have them representing our program as they continue to build their careers.” Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: dmason@newspress.com

Warriors open GSAC Play with double-overtime golden goal By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT COLLEGE WRITER

Westmont (3-3, 1-0 GSAC) played 100 minutes of frustrating soccer on Thursday, before the 101st minute made it all worth it. Connor Lynch’s golden goal a minute into the second-overtime downed San Diego Christian (2-4-2, 0-1) in Westmont’s Golden State Athletic Conference opener, redeeming an otherwise exhausting match at the Montecito college.

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Women open GSAC with win By RON SMITH WESTMONT COLLEGE WRITER

Westmont Women’s soccer (5-1-1, 10 GSAC), ranked 19th in the latest NAIA Women’s Soccer Coaches’ Poll, earned its first win in Golden State Athletic Conference on Thursday at Thorrington Field by defeating San Diego Christian (1-5, 0-1). The Warriors controlled possession throughout the contest and outshot the Hawks 30-1. Westmont’s first goal came in the 36th minute off the foot of Annalise Romero, who registered her first collegiate goal. Sadie Hill collected the ball at midfield, then dribbled at an angle toward the left touchline before passing off to Karly Kingsley. Kingsley continued down the left touchline, then turned toward the goal before reaching the end line. Kingsley passed the ball back to the top of the sixyard box where Romero ran back onto it and used a single touch to send the ball into the far corner.

“I am excited to see Annalise get her first goal today,” said Westmont head coach Jenny Jaggard. “Over the last week or so, she has come out of her shell at practice and shown us the skill set that we recruited her for. The first few weeks of school, she wasn’t ready to bring some of those aspects with confidence. I felt like the things she was doing on the field was a big breakout moment. It was a tremendously good game for her. “Karly got to play in some new spots today that we have wanted her to play in for a long time but for various reasons haven’t put her forward.” In the 56th minute, Teagan Matye notched her third goal of the season to give the Warriors a 2-0 lead. Daisy Alvarez dribbled the ball into the left corner, then turned upfield before passing the ball back to the top of the 18 where Matye was waiting. Matye dribbled toward the center of the field before firing off a shot from 24 yards out that easily found the far corner. “Teagan got one and she created some fantastic opportunities,” noted Jaggard. “She is getting more confidence to go to

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goal, which I think has been the missing piece. She is a very talented passer, but sometimes she passes up the deadly opportunity to finish for herself.” Alvarez then scored herself in the 68th minute on a free kick. Amarys Marchado was fouled just above the 18-yard box resulting in a free kick. Alvarez drove the ball through a wall of four defenders and inside the near post to record her first collegiate goal. “One of the main reasons we recruited Daisy was because of her free kick ability in high school,” recalled Jaggard. “Every game I went to, she would score off a free kick. It takes a lot of confidence for a younger player to step up, grab the ball and say, ‘I’m going to take the free kick.’ She scored a banger just like that yesterday in training. So it is exciting to see her do it under pressure. What a great ball. Hopefully she can replicate that more.” Ron Smith is the sports information director at Westmont College. email: dmason@newspress.com

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on frame. Then Mans Ingvarson dropped to his knees and blocked the ball down by his shoe tops, before pouncing on the ricochet ahead of an oncoming Hawk. Ingvarson went on to tally four saves. In the 21st minute, Aldo Becerril recorded Westmont’s lone shot on frame when he rolled a ball directly to Hawks’ keeper Carter Orchulli from 25 yards out. Nearly 25 minutes passed without another shot on frame, as the two sides remained aggressive, but mostly in the middle-third of the field. In that middle-third, not much truly developed, due to the 17 combined fouls between the two. “A big adjustment for us at half was just reminding the guys to leave the officials alone,” chuckled Wolf. “We sounded a little desperate, and it’s a hard enough sport when you’re keeping your wits about you.” Westmont’s refocus was evident in the 55th minute, when Samuel Tuscano’s left foot once again led to a change on the scoreboard, this time via a corner kick. Tuscano served a ball to the back of the six-yard box that only Memo Mendoza could reach, and with one touch, Mendoza froze the Hawks’ keeper with a shot inside the left post that put the Warriors up 1-0. For Mendoza, it was the first goal of his senior campaign. “Today, Memo displayed who he should be as a player,” explained Wolf. “He was under control, measured it, and he finished it. Sometimes Memo can color outside the lines, but today he played the perfect role for us and we would not have won the game without him.” In the 76th minute, Ruben Anguiniga turned the game upside-down when he crossed a ball to William Nyamba at the back of the six-yard box. Westmont’s defense left Nyamba uncovered, and the senior striker buried the equalizer with a single touch to make things 1-1. The second half was an entirely different game, with eight shots on goal and two goals coming after a half with nearly zero offense. At the end of 90 minutes, the teams were still knotted 1-1. In the 94th minute, Braeden Pryor was making a run 25 yards out before being tackled to the ground by Anderson. Landon Amaral, Connor Lynch, and Samuel Tuscano huddled

around to discuss the set piece, and it was Lynch who ultimately let one fly. However, San Diego’s wall stuffed the shot and prevented the Warriors from getting a look on frame. Lynch’s shot was the only scoring opportunity for either side in the first overtime, and the game was ticketed for the century mark in minutes. After 100 minutes of hard-fought soccer, only one more was needed to find a victor. Forty seconds into the final overtime, Ingvarson took a free kick ten yards in front of his own box, and lofted the ball 75 yards down field. On the receiving end was the head of Pryor, who one-touch flicked the ball another ten yards in the right direction. After the free kick and flick, the ball landed in the path of freshman Connor Lynch, who carried the ball into the 18 and sent a ball into the back of the net for a golden goal. Lynch then ran in a circle, not sure of where the celebration was taking place, before deciding to sprint towards his own bench and find his way to the center of the mob. It was Lynch’s first collegiate goal. “I think Connor Lynch is going to be the best newcomer in this conference,” Wolf said after the victory. “It wasn’t his sharpest day, but he showed character and stepped up big. He has a very bright future as a collegiate soccer player.” “We didn’t lose our way emotionally today,” reflected Wolf. “The beautiful irony of that showed in the final moments. Braeden and Connor both struggled today for 100 minutes, but in the moment we needed them, they got us a result. There’s a lesson to be learned personally for those guys as well as collectively from that.” The Warriors are back in action on Saturday at 3:15 p.m., when the Vanguard Lions come into town for another GSAC match. Tickets are available on the Westmont website. “We’re always a big game for people, and we’re especially a big game for people when they think we’re down,” said Wolf. “Right now, if you look at the GSAC layout, teams might be smelling an opportunity to get us. The only thing we can do to change that is to win games.” Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: dmason@newspress.com

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Hearing on the request of the Santa Barbara County Community Services Department, Parks Division, to consider Case Nos. 16DVP-00000-00017, 17CUP-00000-00046, 16CDP‑00000‑00106, and 19NGD-00000-00012 for the following: a) b) c) d)

16DVP-00000-00017 (Development Plan (DVP)) to validate the existing, as-built development and proposed improvements at Jalama Beach County Park pursuant to Section 35-174 of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance; 17CUP-00000-00046 (Major Conditional Use Permit (CUP)) to permit the as-built campground facilities located in the AG-II zone district pursuant to Section 35-69.4 of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance; 16CDP-00000-00106 (Coastal Development Permit (CDP)) to authorize the development allowed by the DVP and CUP pursuant to Section 35-174.9 and 35-172.9 of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance; and 19NGD-00000-00012 (Mitigated Negative Declaration) to adopt the Mitigated Negative Declaration pursuant to the State Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. As a result of this project, significant but mitigable effects on the environment are anticipated in the following categories: Aesthetics, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Geologic Processes, Hazardous Materials/Risk of Upset, Noise, Transportation/Circulation, and Water Resources/Flooding.

The Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) and all documents referenced herein may be reviewed at the Planning and Development Department (P&D), 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. The MND may also be reviewed on the County P&D website at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/home.sbc. The application involves Assessor Parcel Nos. 083-510001 and 083-510-064, zoned Recreation (REC) and Agriculture (AG-II-320), located on the coast at the terminus of Jalama Road approximately 19 miles south of the City of Lompoc and 56 miles north of the City of Santa Barbara, situated between Vandenberg Air Force Base and Point Conception, in the Third Supervisorial District. (Estimated Time: 1 hr.) 21APL-00000-00034 17EIR-00000-00003

Appeal of SBGL, LLC Cannabis Cultivation Land Use Permit Lompoc Joe Dargel, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3573 Alia Vosburg, Planner (805) 934-6259

Hearing on the request of Kathryn and William Hames, Appellant, to consider Case No. 21APL‑0000000034, an appeal of the approval of Land Use Permit (LUP) Case No. 19LUP‑00000-00126 by the Director of the Planning and Development Department (herein after Director), which approved the following: • • • •

3.5 acres of outdoor cannabis cultivation; 4,620 square feet (sq. ft.) of mixed-light cannabis cultivation in one existing 1,800 sq. ft. greenhouse and one proposed 2,820 sq. ft. greenhouse; 3,600 sq. ft. of indoor cannabis cultivation and 1,200 sq. ft. of indoor cannabis nursery in an existing 5,264 sq. ft. structure; and Conversion of three existing structures, totaling 5,552 sq. ft., to cannabis processing.

The LUP involves a 98.7-acre property, zoned Agriculture-II (AG-II-100), located at 705 Mail Road in the Lompoc area, Fourth Supervisorial District. The appeal was filed in compliance with Section 35.102 (Appeals) of the Santa Barbara County Land Use and Development Code (LUDC). SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION RECORDING SECRETARY (568-2000) OCT 3 / 2021 -- 57516

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Foreigner remains famous for hits such as “Cold As Ice” and “I Want to Know What Love Is.”

Foreigner still stirring emotions Longtime rock band to perform its hits with orchestra at Santa Barbara Bowl

British musicians, including Dennis Elliott. Two other Americans were among the original members — Al Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi. oreigner lead singer Kelly Mr. Jones and Mr. Gramm wrote most Hansen has watched the of Foreigner’s songs. longtime rock band’s music The band’s first album, “Foreigner” affect audiences deeply on and its sequel, “Double Vision” (1978), an emotional level. placed high on U.S. charts, as did the And he’s experienced his own third album, “Head Games” (1979). heartfelt moments during the songs. Foreigner’s music became popular “The other night, I was singing everywhere from the LPs on home ‘Waiting for A Girl Like You,’ ” Mr. turntables to the radio to Foreigner’s Hansen told the News-Press by phone concerts. At the time, other bands from his Los Angeles home. “I hadn’t played Foreigner music at high school seen my wife in quite a while. It was dances. very emotional for me to sing. Along with bands such as Styx, “I had to explain to the audience why I was choking up while I was singing the Foreigner helped to define the tempo, song,” said Mr. Hansen, who got married the mood, the tone of the late 1970s rock scene. to his wife, Anna, during a virtual And like Styx, Foreigner stressed that ceremony during the pandemic. no matter the beat, “I try to put on melodies and lyrics a song like a glove mattered. when I sing it,” he “Mick, when he was Foreigner will perform with an said. “That means writing some of those I have to be in orchestra at 7 p.m. Saturday at the early songs, he would character or find the Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. look for an everyday connection like an Tickets are $41 to $135 at sbbowl.com. phrase and find a way actor would. I like For more about the band, go to to tweak it enough doing that with all foreigneronline.com. when it became a those songs, all the For a schedule of Santa Barbara really great song lyrics. I have to find Bowl concerts, see B4. lyric,” Mr. Hansen a way to make them said. “I think he’s been mean something to very successful in me.” doing that.” Fans of Mr. Hansen and Foreigner He noted that everyone around the will experience music rich with world seems to know the lyrics to “I emotion when the band performs with Want to Know What Love Is.” an orchestra Saturday at the Santa “It’s so weird to be (performing) in Barbara Bowl. Germany or South Africa or somewhere, The orchestra will no doubt add and everyone (in the audience) is another layer for music that is at times singing the lyrics,” Mr. Hansen said. intense with a hard rock beat — “Cold “That’s the power and strength and As Ice,” “Hot Blooded” — and other connection to everybody. It’s a great times sweet and romantic — “I Want to moment in the show. Know What Love Is.” The melodies can “All kinds of things happen” at the even have a mysterious tinge; listen to concerts, Mr. Hansen said. “We have “Double Vision.” people making proposals to people As a vocalist, Mr. Hansen said he couldn’t ask for a better catalog of songs. during the show. You see people’s faces. You see people sometimes recalling an “The songwriting is really great, earlier time in their life, and you see classic pop songwriting,” he said. “The the music affects people in different other thing that makes it unique is ways. Sometimes they’re simultaneously really great arrangements. Foreigner crying and being giddy. It’s an amazing had really elegant arrangements and thing to be part of.” unique guitar solos. No one plays guitar Mr. Hansen said Foreigner’s music solos like that.” has transcended generations. He has Guitarist and songwriter Mick Jones seen young people, born long after is the only original member still with Foreigner started, knowing the lyrics the band, which Mr. Jones started in and singing them during concerts. 1976 with fellow British musician Ian During Foreigner’s early years, McDonald and American singer Lou Mr. Hansen was in high school in Gramm, Foreigner’s original lead Manhattan Beach in the Los Angeles vocalist. Mr. Jones thought of the name “Foreigner,” since the band had three Please see FOREIGNER on B4 By DAVE MASON

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“Double Vision,” Foreigner’s 1978 album, did well on the charts and featured songs such as “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision” and “Lonely Children.”

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ARIES — You move from making love to making war now that Mercury is retrograde. Mercury is in your partnership zone, creating drama in your relationships when you’re quick to quarrel because of miscommunications and misunderstandings. Don’t fly off the handle, Aries! TAURUS — Oh no, Taurus! Your carefully laid habits and routines you’ve been working on get thrown off balance when Mercury is in retrograde. Mercury is retrograde in your habit zone, making you feel unproductive and unmotivated. GEMINI — Let your body do the talking over the next couple of weeks now that Mercury is retrograde. Your ruling planet is in your pleasure zone, making it difficult to express yourself in words. Creative blocks and delays in romance can leave you frustrated. CANCER — Brace yourself for a few weeks of family drama while Mercury is in its final retrograde of the year. The planet of communication is retrograde in your family zone, bringing some major shake-ups to your private life. LEO — Yikes! If you’re not careful, Leo, you’ll discover plenty of opportunities to put your foot in your mouth. That’s because Mercury is now in its dreaded retrograde, moving backward in your communication zone. You might have a difficult time trusting your own thoughts. VIRGO — Do yourself a favor and hide your credit cards right now. Trust us on this. It’s for your own good. Your ruling planet Mercury is now in retrograde in your value zone, sending your usually thrifty habits off the rails with impulse spending. LIBRA — Yikes, Libra! You may not be making a great first impression for the next couple weeks because Mercury is now retrograde in your sign. People might get the wrong idea about your temperament and personality due to misunderstandings and miscommunications. SCORPIO — Tea is going to be spilled now, Scorpio, and most of it will land on you. That’s because Mercury will be retrograde in your privacy zone for the next couple of weeks, possibly spilling all of your secrets—secrets that could hurt your relationships and reveal things you want to keep hidden. SAGITTARIUS — Yikes, Sagittarius! Friendships could take a nasty turn now that Mercury is retrograde in Libra. The planet of communication is retrograde in your social zone, making you realize that your friendships may not be as harmonious as you thought. CAPRICORN — Be very careful for the next couple of weeks, Capricorn. Mercury is now retrograde, and you might say something that throws you off track and hurts your reputation. Mercury is in your career zone, making work especially difficult. AQUARIUS — Think twice before booking any upcoming travel, Aquarius. Yup, Mercury is now retrograde, throwing a wrench into all your important plans. Mercury will be backing up in your philosophy zone for the next couple of weeks, creating delays and cancellations. PISCES — Be very careful with your finances over the next couple of weeks, Pisces, especially if you’re splitting the bills with another person. Mercury is now retrograde in your intimacy zone, creating miscommunication around money issues.

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Everyone from Willie Nelson to Phish is performing at the Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. For tickets, go to sbbowl.com. Proof of vaccinations or a negative COVID-19 test is required for entry for everyone, including children under 12. These concerts are currently scheduled: • 7 tonight. Van Morrison. • 7 p.m. Saturday. Foreigner. • 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Brothers Osborne. • 7 p.m. Oct. 20. Wilco. • 7 p.m. Oct. 21. Willie Nelson. • 6 p.m. Oct. 26. Phish. • 7 p.m. Oct. 27 and 28. Glass Animals • 7 p.m. Nov. 6. Khruangbin. • 7 p.m. March 26. Alt-J and Portugal.The Man and Cherry Glazerr. • 7 p.m. April 6. Ben Platt. • 7 p.m. May 7. Lorde.

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The Santa Barbara Bowl was built in 1936 and has seen more than $40 million in improvements.

Damasco wins award for extraordinary nurses By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Brenda Damasco, a registered nurse at the Comprehensive Care Center in Lompoc, has been recognized with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The prestigious international award is part of The DAISY Foundation’s mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care provided to patients and families every day, according to a news release. Ms. Damasco was nominated by a former CCC patient who was recovering from a difficult surgery and had significant medical issues during her healing. She said Ms. Damasco was kind-hearted, compassionate and attentive. “The most recent recovery was the most painful and had quite a few setbacks, but you always comforted me with your smile and your caring heart,” the patient noted in a letter. “You could always get me back to my positive self.” The patient said Ms. Damaso always made sure she was comfortable, never had to wait for medications and checked on her often. “I appreciate you more than you could truly understand,” the woman wrote. Ms. Damasco began her

healthcare career at Lompoc Valley Medical Center’s Skilled Nursing Facility as a licensed vocational nurse 15 years ago. She worked as an LVN from 2008 to 2015, when she became a registered nurse. She also worked for 10 years in urgent care at the former Sansum Clinic. “It’s so selective and prestigious,” Ms. Damasco said of the award. “I’m just honored, so honored, to be a part of this.” As for the patient who nominated her, the nurse said she formed a strong bond with the woman, and the patient will always have a “special place in my heart. “When she was having a rough start in the mornings, we’d do a little pep talk and say ‘Everything’s going to be OK,’ and she was,” recalled Ms. Damasco, who is married to Enrique and has a 3-year-old son, RJ. The nurse said she was drawn to health care because her grandfather, Sebastian, always wanted to have a nurse in the family because of the prestige. “I grew up watching the nurses in Mexico with their white dresses and hats, and they would come into our community,” she recalled. “They got so much respect and people listened to them. They helped the community so much that I always looked up to them. I

was probably 6, and I remember saying ‘I want to be like that.’ It always guided me.” The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation was established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes by members of his family and honors nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families. Mr. Barnes died in 1999 at the age of 33 from complications caused by ITP, or Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, an auto-immune disease. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The foundation was inspired by the care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill. LVMC nominations are reviewed by an internal committee of representatives from nursing, non-nursing and non-clinical departments. In addition to a certificate, winners also receive a DAISY Award pin and a sculpture called A Healer’s Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Zimbabwe. More information about the award is available at daisyfoundation.org. To nominate a nurse at LVMC, Lompoc Health or the Comprehensive Care Center, see the nomination form at lompocvmc.com, under

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TCM to salute Jane Powell

Turner Classic Movies will honor legend Jane Powell with a programming tribute on Oct. 16. Ms. Powell, an actress known for great musicals such as “Royal Wedding” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” died Sept. 16. She was 92. Here’s the schedule. Times are Eastern, so you may need to adjust three hours unless you know your channel is on an East Coast schedule. Noon. “Luxury Liner” (1948). The daughter of a ship’s captain becomes a seagoing cupid.

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area. He explained how he started his lifelong career in rock ’n roll. “It was really purely by accident,” he said. “A friend of mine had a band and was singing on the beach.” The friend recruited Mr. Hansen into the band as its lead singer. “I was nearing the end of high school. I was wondering what I would do with the rest of my life,” said Mr. Hansen, who graduated in 1978 from Mira Costa High School. Instead of going to college, Mr. Hansen stayed with performing rock and joined the bandf Hurricane in 1985. Later he sang with a group with Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille and was involved with projects such as composing music for television. He joined Foreigner in 2005. Today, the band still features Mr. Jones on lead and rhythm guitars and keyboards. The rest of the band consists of Jeff Pilson on bass and keyboards; Michael Bluestein on keyboards; Bruce Watson on rhythm and lead guitars; Chris Frazier on drums; and Luis Maldonado on rhythm guitar and bass. Everyone except Mr. Frazier is on backing vocals. As the lead vocalist, Mr. Hansen follows in the footsteps of Mr. Gramm, the songwriter who served as Foreigner’s lead singer from its formation until 2003. “I think I have a different swing than he does,” said Mr. Hansen, a fan of old R&B and 1950s combo jazz. “But these are great songs with great melodies and great

Santa Barbara, CA - The most common method your doctor will recommend to treat your neuropathy is with prescription drugs that may temporarily reduce your symptoms. These drugs have names such as Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin, and are primarily antidepressant or anti-seizure drugs. These drugs may cause you to feel uncomfortable and have a variety of harmful side effects. The main problem is that your doctor has told you to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you new hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity consultation at the end of this article).

2 p.m. “Small Town Girl” (1953). A sheriff’s daughter falls for a playboy arrested for speeding. 4 p.m. “Royal Wedding” (1951). A brother-and-sister musical team find romance when they tour to London for Elizabeth II’s wedding. With Fred Astaire (who does some dancing on a ceiling!). 6 p.m. “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” (1954). When their older brother marries, six lumberjacks decide to go courting. — Dave Mason lyrics. It’s not my job to show people how much differently I can sing the songs. I’m trying to carry forward the legacy of this band. I love the songs the way they are. “I have a different cadence. I interpret some of the accents differently,” Mr. Hansen said, but noted he’s careful to sing the compositions in the manner fans remember them. “We’re a very tight, very musically skilled band,” Mr. Hansen said. “We have a really good time. We enjoy each other’s company. You can’t buy that for any amount of money.” He said after the long hiatus during the pandemic, Foreigner started playing together again in June and is on now on its first full leg of touring in more than a year. Mr. Hansen said Foreigner decided, during this time of COVID-19 protocols, to focus on performing strictly in the U.S. He said he didn’t mind the long break during the pandemic. “Keep this in mind. I have been on the road eight to nine months a year for the last 15 years straight,” Mr. Hansen said. “For the first few months for me, it was kind of nice. “People see a life of a traveling rock band as something that is incredibly great, which it is,” he said. “The shows, which are an hour and a half, are amazing. The traveling is not always so easy.” Mr. Hansen said he enjoys simply being home, where he likes to do his own home repairs, work on his motorcycles, attend to his garden and watch the seasons change. “It lets me recharge my batteries.” email: dmason@newspress.com

In order to effectively treat your neuropathy, three factors must be determined. 1. What is the underlying cause? 2. How much nerve damage has been sustained?* 3. How much treatment will your condition require? Don’t Hesitate to Act Now! Peripheral Neuropathy is a progressive condition and once you have sustained 85% nerve loss, there is likely nothing we can do for you.

The treatment that is provided at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic has three main goals: The treatment to increase blood flow utilizes electronic cell signaling delivering modulating energy wavelengths at both low and middle frequencies. The signaling improves cell-to-cell communication among Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often caus- small nerve fibers. ing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating balThe cell signaling therapy is like watering a tree. The treatment will alance problems. low the blood vessels to grow back around the peripheral nerves and This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves provide them with the proper nutrients to heal and repair. It’s like addin the hands and feet which will cause the nerves to begin to slowly ing water to a tree and seeing the roots grow deeper and deeper. degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow. The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the varies from person to person and can only be determined after a denerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to tailed neurological and vascular evaluation. not receive the nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves As long as you have not sustained at least 85% begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numbnerve damage there is hope! ness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.

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DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

More of the same old, same old “Agovernment big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” — Thomas Jefferson

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Columnist Brent Zepke has raised questions about the Biden administration’s actions during the pandemic, the southern border crisis and the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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nterests” was a friend’s response to the topic of the meeting: “How can we get Democrats talking to Republicans?” “Nice job,” I thought of stirring the discussion toward “procedures” and away from the two topics we had agreed were “off-limits” at our meeting: politics and religion. A short time ago a golfer-writer friend had asked the other three of us “golferswriters” (or some weeks “writersgolfers”) to a breakfast meeting at — where else? — the restaurant overlooking the municipal golf course. We were not sure why we might meet, but casual conversation established enough mutual respect for us to agree to meet again. As our second meeting began, I silently uttered “Whew” when my

friend’s response was “Interests,” We used personal credibility followed with his involvement and training to establish the with some studies and examples necessary trust for what we supporting the theory that labeled “mutual interest” negotiations starting with stating bargaining. The results were not “positions” was not conducive to only agreements but ones that reaching agreements. worked for everybody. Brent However, both parties If people act according Zepke starting with their to their “interests,” “interests” had a much consider what the actions The author higher probability of of the decision makers in lives in Santa the White House, whoever reaching a mutual Barbara interest agreement. that may be, indicate are I added that this was their interests. consistent with my experience 1. What are the White House for our 29 collective bargaining interests in pipelines when it contracts. We decided to take the closes the Keystone in the U.S., risks of violating the National but it approves the one carrying Labor Relations Act, as well oil from Russia to Germany? as my risk of being blamed if Taking the two decisions this approach did not lead to together eliminates the interest an agreement management: I being climate change or the suspect that the union bargaining environment while denying committees faced similar issues. the U.S. the safest means of

transporting oil and gas. Is there another possibility besides helping the Russian and German citizens and hurting the U.S. ones? 2. What are the White House interests in reducing the drilling in the U.S. so the energy needs have to be met by sending taxpayers dollars to Saudi Arabia and other Mideast countries, which caused the average price of a gallon to increase by over a dollar? Is the White House saying drilling in other countries does not affect the climate or the environment? 3. What are the White House interests in building walls between countries when it stopped the pre-paid U.S. wall with Mexico while sending taxpayers dollars to help Tajikistan’s build a wall to prevent unvetted entrance from

Afghanistan? 4. What are the White House interests in open borders when it opened the southern one but closed the one with Canada? 5. What are the White House interests in vaccinations when it will permit an estimated two million-plus unvaccinated migrants this year to walk into the U.S. from Mexico and contaminate the Border Patrol, resulting in an estimated 25% of the patrol having COVID-19 — before exposing the U.S. military and private contractors to these COVID carriers in order to transport them, in secret, to primarily red states? How about requiring vaccinations for federal employees but not for the members of the Please see ZEPKE on C4

Sotomayor exposes the lie of an ‘apolitical’ Supreme Court Editor’s note: David Limbaugh is on a sabbatical. Columnist Josh Hammer is substituting for him.

he U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term next week, which means all eyes have again returned to the justices’ marble palace at 1 First St. N.E., Washington, D.C. This court term, unlike the last one, promises to be a blockbuster: The hot-button issues of abortion, gun rights and potentially affirmative action will all be on the justices’ docket. By the end of this term, we should have a definitive answer as to just how “conservative” the putatively conservative, 6-to-3 Republicannominated majority court actually is. And just as all eyes have returned to the court, observers of all stripes have been presented

with a timely reminder as to how hardly unexpected: She dissented the Supreme Court’s progressives from the court’s correct recent view their jobs: to wit, as decision to deny Texas prounabashed liberal partisans. abortion plaintiffs’ emergency That reminder has now come request to enjoin any enforcement courtesy of the current Court’s of Senate Bill 8, lambasting the most far-left justice, Sonia law at the time as “flagrantly Sotomayor. It follows an entire unconstitutional.” career’s worth of similar Speaking at an comments from Justice American Bar Association Sotomayor’s former event about diversity, the colleague, the late Justice loose-lipped jurisprude Ruth Bader Ginsburg. allegedly said, according According to reporting to CNN: “You know, I from both CNN and The can’t change Texas’ law, Washington Post, Justice but you can and everyone Sotomayor recently else who may or may not Josh Hammer offered what can only like it can go out there be interpreted as a and be lobbying forces in substantive public policy position changing laws that you don’t like.” on Senate Bill 8, Texas’ recent Perhaps then realizing in real time anti-abortion fetal heartbeat law that she had overstepped, Justice that has garnered much national Sotomayor allegedly then tried to attention. That Justice Sotomayor half-walk back her comment: “I am would now offer a forthright pointing out that when I shouldn’t political opinion on the topic is because they tell me I shouldn’t.

But my point is that there are going to be a lot of things you don’t like.” It is difficult, likely impossible, to interpret these comments as anything other than Justice Sotomayor actively encouraging the bar association audience to work to alter or repeal S.B. 8. Under standard canons of judicial ethics and federal law (28 U.S.C. 455) itself, Justice Sotomayor should now be forced to recuse from future S.B. 8 litigation at the Supreme Court. She almost assuredly will not do so, of course. Indeed, similarly left-wing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was infamous for making precisely these sorts of comments. As but one example, during pending same-sex marriage litigation at the Supreme Court, she haughtily dismissed a Bloomberg interviewer’s question about the court possibly moving too quickly by constitutionalizing same-sex marriage under the

Fourteenth Amendment. “I think it’s doubtful that (constitutionalized same-sex marriage) wouldn’t be accepted” by the whole country, Justice Ginsburg said just a few months before she joined Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion constitutionalizing samesex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. It is just as ludicrous to now expect erudite “impartiality” from Sotomayor on the Texas Heartbeat Act as it was to expect such impartiality from Justice Ginsburg on same-sex marriage. The legal left’s longstanding “realist” approach to jurisprudence and judicial philosophy stands in marked contrast to the legal right’s traditionally more wooden “formalist” approach. That approach can be encapsulated by a quip from the late Justice Antonin Please see HAMMER on C4

panga boat was seized Monday off the coast of Gaviota, with 15 passengers suspected of smuggling fentanyl. Not kilos of marijuana, like the old days, but an addictive synthetic heroin that is more deadly. The Drug Enforcement Administration reported it came from Mexico and China. The runners used to smuggle pot, but with legal dispensaries for marijuana sales, the blackmarket profit margin has diminished, and the availability is more widespread. The doctors are in hot water for the opioid addiction, prescribed generously and furnished by Big Pharma, aren’t they? Witnessing our “war against drug,” we are reminded of our leaders’ handling of Afghanistan. A flop. The only action we see is our congressman, Salud Carbajal, repeatedly going to the table for more of our money. Included in the latest spending bill of $3.5 trillion is a plan to hire 85,000 additional Internal Revenue Service workers. For what? To survey every transaction of $600 and above. The alert from a local bank that the Biden-Harris administration wants the banks to report to the IRS — “inflows and outflows of an account total at least $600 in a year, or if the account has a fair market value of at least $600.” Under the guise of everyone must pay their fair share, more overreach of a government that no longer appears to operate as founded, “for, by and of the people,” but is aimed “at the people.” Another diabolical section is to fine employers $70,000 to $700,000 for resisting the mandate of vaccines on their employees. Again, what does this do? Doesn’t it destroy the small and individual businesses while big box, Amazon, ad nauseum flourish? During the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors’ recent meeting, the COVID-19 outbreak at the jail was discussed. The inmates are tested as they arrive and are kept in an isolated holding facility for 10 days. They are tested again before being allowed to join the jail population. How did COVID-19 get into the jail to cause the outbreak? Three employees tested positive. One of whom was vaccinated. Remember that it is said that the vaccinated carry 251% more of the viral load. The county is giving inmates incentives to take the vaccine. We wonder if it’s a program like the one at Santa Barbara City College, which rewarded the students with a $100 “blue bill” for showing their “vaccine papers.” And that, after they had already received $50 to take a shot. How cheaply their privacy is sold. After the COVID-19 outbreak at the jail, our local school board decreed COVID vaccines are mandatory and that no Please see DONOVAN on C4 PURELY POLITICAL

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

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She has cut red tape and reduced bureaucracy by demanding reforms in the long-troubled Community Development Department, pushing for regulatory flexibility so businesses could stay open during the pandemic, and developing a low/no interest loan program for artist-owned affordable condos. The fact that Meagan has been endorsed by the most credible organizations in our community, like the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, city firefighters and the Women’s Political Committee, is evidence that she’s a talented and valuable public servant. I look forward to her continuing as the 6th District council member, serving her district and the entire city.

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Santa Barbara resident H.T. Bryan urges all eligible residents to get their COVID-19 vaccines.

America’s supply chain truck wreck

want to speak to you fuel prices across the board. about the reason store Speaking of this war shelves are emptying against truckers, this past and why parts of the week ExxonMobil was before United States are the Santa Barbara County dealing with scarcities of all Planning Commission kinds. Some of it has to do requesting that it be allowed with the prolonged shutdown to truck its oil until the of our economy that literally pipeline they use is finally broke the links in our supply repaired or replaced. chains. The county wasted Much of it has to do with years analyzing and the trucking industry hyperventilating that has been ignored, about the dangers, slighted, taken for once or twice a granted and over century no less, about regulated, to the point the potential for an there are not enough oil spill, should the trucks and truckers trucking operation to offload hundreds be approved. Yet, Andy Caldwell of cargo ships waiting each and every day, offshore of our ports America relies on throughout the nation. the trucking industry The supply chain breakage to use our local streets, was exaggerated by way highways and freeways to of a triple whammy of the deliver each and every item COVID-19 lockdown as it we rely on daily. affected truckers. Deliveries The problem here is that were eliminated to stores and people, including decision facilities that were closed. makers and activists, no The truckers had a hard longer know where things time finding eateries and come from, how they are bathrooms on the road. And made and what it takes to too many truckers ended up satisfy consumer demands. getting paid more for staying They disdain the blue collar home with their families workers in our midst, as they rather than going to work. try to eliminate their jobs for Speaking in terms of perceived environmental ills, California’s adversarial and including those having to do tumultuous relationship with with farming, manufacturing, the trucking industry, consider industry and transportation. the following. I consider it both a blessing California promulgated a and a curse to have been diesel engine rule that took brought up by parents who out of service some $20 billion were part of the greatest of diesel equipment, including generation. trucks, farm and construction The blessing has to do equipment, by way of air with what made this country quality rule that was steeped great. People were rewarded in academic and regulatory by way of taking risks. They corruption. The rule required lived sacrificially for their multiple replacements and families and their country. modifications of engines that Entrepreneurial spirits were too expensive for most were honored for their owner operators, and momcontributions to society and and-pop companies, to comply economy. And most people with. Most of this equipment got to keep what they earned, has never been replaced. purchased, and inherited. Then there is AB5, The curse? Watching all of currently tied up in the the above getting frittered courts, as it affects the away by a generation of smug, trucking industry. AB5 would self-satisfied, delusional serve to eliminate ownernarcissists who take operators and contract everything they received drivers from operating in for granted while they California. On top of that, Gov. systematically dismantle and Gavin Newsom has declared disown our heritage, liberty no diesel trucks will be and economy. allowed to be sold or operated in this state within the next Andy Caldwell is the COLAB two decades. And, let us not executive director and host of forget, both Gov. Newsom “The Andy Caldwell Show,” and President Joe Biden are airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on waging a war against the oil KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press industry, which is driving up radio station.

Get vaccinated for yourself and others

ur nation has lost over 690,000 citizens to the COVID-19 pandemic, and millions have suffered its effects. Sixty percent of us are fully vaccinated. We have an estimated 35% who have not been vaccinated, many of whom claim it’s their right not to be vaccinated. The vaccines are safe and effective. Millions of lives have been saved. People are not dying from the vaccine. Do the anti-vaxxers have a right to infect others? Do they have a right to medical treatment and hospitalization, when they come down with COVID? Do they have the right to take up medical services and hospitals, at the loss to others, needing medical treatment for cancer, heart conditions, operations and other critical medical problems? Do they have no moral responsibility to their fellow citizens? Anti-vaxxers, get with the vaccination program and wipe out COVID-19. Save yourself and others from death and/or major sickness. H.T. Bryan Santa Barbara

Grateful for no-smoking laws

am a Turkish student studying English at Kaplan Santa Barbara. Ever since my arrival here two weeks ago, I’ve been surprised by Santa Barbara’s nosmoking in public law. Cigarettes are smoked everywhere in Turkey, whether it’s open in public or places like restaurants or cafes — and it’s not a beautiful sight. Smoke is everywhere and cigarettes litter the ground. Santa Barbara’s exemplary behavior should spread not only to Turkey but everywhere. I love Santa Barbara’s nosmoking law. I have never been to a place where smoking wasn’t all around me. I hope non-smoking laws spread everywhere. Smoking has so many health hazards for smokers and nonsmokers. Thank you, Santa Barbara.

the pandemic, to increasing affordable housing. As a renter herself, a working mom with a daughter and a baby on the way, she really seems to understand that working families need help to make it here. It is easy sometimes to get cynical about our political system because elected officials seem so out of touch and too often really don’t understand the needs of the people they are supposed to represent. Meagan is a breath of fresh air. I am not wealthy, and I can’t make major contributions to political campaigns, but I can vote. I am going to vote for the candidate who works for people like me even though I’m not some well-heeled special interest group. I am proud to support Meagan Harmon for City Council. Clayton L. Tyler Santa Barbara

Meagan Harmon has excelled

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ve been a City Council watcher for many years. It’s been an ongoing delight to watch Councilmember Meagan Harmon since she joined the City Council in 2019. It’s no accident that Meagan’s colleagues voted unanimously to appoint her to the State Street Advisory Committee that will shape the future of our downtown area, an obvious nod to her collaborative style and professionalism. Her leadership in creating the State Street Promenade enabled local businesses to stay afloat and revitalized our business corridor, finally breaking the log jam that has fueled State Street’s yearslong decline. Meagan has fought unrelentingly to help working families, from pushing for nocause eviction protection to extended rental assistance during the pandemic to hero pay for grocery and drugstore workers facing extra dangers on behalf of us all. She was a leader in requiring 15% inclusionary affordable housing in new development.

Carpinteria resident Diana Thorn is critical of Gov. Gavin Newsom for signing legislation making mail-in ballots a permanent part of elections.

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Mail-in ballots mean trouble

avin Newsom, the dictatorial governor of California, is on a roll. This time he signed universal mail-in voting into law. That means every registered voter in California will now be sent a mail-in-ballot. Assembly Bill 37, which was authored by Assemblyman Marc Berman (Menlo Park), “requires county elections officials to mail a ballot to every active registered voter for all elections, whether they request it or not. Voters can still choose to vote at physical polling locations, if they prefer. The new law will also permanently extend the time mail ballots have to arrive at elections offices from three to seven days after an election, a practice adopted in 2020,” the Sacramento Bee reported. What does the adoption of this bill mean? Will there be voter fraud, poor security and ballot harvesting? Will mailin-ballots be tampered with or illegally filled out? Will Assembly Bill 37 institutionalize election fraud, keep California a oneparty controlled state and will California ever have legal, fair elections again? The next election will tell the story. Diana Thorn Carpinteria

Let the trucks roll

he County of Santa Barbara has forced ExxonMobil to propose trucking its oil until it is permitted to reopen its pipeline. The pipeline is the least expensive and safest means of transportation for the oil from Los Floris refinery. We urge the county to grant its permission for ExxonMobil to proceed for these reasons. The company is shipping U.S. oil so we do not have to be dependent on foreign oil importations. Gasoline, oil and hydrogen

Mehdi Kaya Kaplan Santa Barbara student

I’m voting for Meagan Harmon

his is a tough town to live in if you aren’t wealthy. As a renter, I want to share how thankful I am to have Meagan Harmon representing me on the Santa Barbara City Council, and I hope she gets elected to another term. Meagan has fought hard for issues that matter to renters, from restrictions on no-fault evictions, to rental assistance and eviction moratoriums during

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Patrons enjoy drinks and company at the M. Special brewery on State Street. In a letter to the editor, Santa Barbara resident Lee Heller praised Councilman Meagan Harmon for her work on the State Street Promenade.

trucks use Highway 101 every day in numerous transportations without problems. The proposed trucks are safe and temporary. So we urge the county to approve this means of transportation. Help us to buy American and reopen the pipeline. Thank you. Justin M. Ruhge Lompoc

Natural immunity is better

once read that if you mix science and politics, you get politics. I don’t know if what the CDC is publishing is exactly politics, but it is not science. You be the judge. Recently President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring all federal employees and contractors to be vaccinated without the option of testing as an alternative. New York City implemented a vaccine passport system restricting access to most public spaces including gyms, salons, restaurants, bars, etc. Santa Barbara Unified School District voted to require vaccination of all teachers and staff without the option of testing or face termination. Employers are increasingly requiring proof of vaccination to work or apply for work. Santa Barbara is considering changing discrimination laws to exclude discrimination on the basis of vaccination status. It is everywhere. We are being required to get vaccinated to work or to just go about the activities of daily life: Get vaccinated or be punished. We are assured that this is necessary due to the great surge in cases, and the threat of a cornucopia of variants each of which is deadly but rendered impotent by the vaccine. But I question if the vaccine is really required for those who have already had and recovered from COVID-19. After all, we know that in general, infection with a virus confers protection from future infections. Perhaps the great surge in cases is also a great surge in people who are now protected from future infection. Should a positive COVID-19 test be the new vaccine passport? What does the CDC have to say about this? Going to their website I was assured by the following headline “New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection.” Pretty clear right? In the first paragraph there is a highlighted sentence, which I repeat here. “These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone ….” But this is outright deception. If you read the entire article carefully, the study did not even compare the effectiveness of vaccine immunity to natural immunity. The study examined if those with natural immunity received extra protection from getting the vaccine after recovering. But the headline and highlighted sentence clearly state that vaccination offers greater protection than natural immunity. So how does natural immunity compare to vaccine immunity? On the CDC website, there is a tutorial on immunity which points out that there is vaccine immunity and natural immunity both important. They seem to have forgotten their own lesson when it comes to COVID-19. What is the breakdown of new cases? How many were vaccinated, and how many recovered from a previous COVID infection? The data is missing. Why? With the great push to vaccinate the world, it is reasonable to ask if the vaccine is necessary. While the CDC chooses not to report on the effectiveness of natural immunity, the Israelis have reported on this. In a study released 8/25/21 “Comparing SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections,” Gazit et al, it was shown that natural immunity is substantially more effective than vaccine induced immunity. This realworld study of tens of thousands of individuals concluded that “Symptomatic disease rate 27 times higher for vaccine immunity compared to natural immunity.” Please see LETTERS on C4

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I What every parent must know about Pfizer

he CEO of Pfizer (market cap: $240.5 billion) is Albert Bourla (2020 compensation package: $21 million). Mr. Bourla and his colleagues want your kids to start getting jabbed with his company’s COVID-19 vaccine by Thanksgiving. Triumphant after the Biden administration recently approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shots (estimated global sales: $26 billion), the company is touting study results (preliminary and non-peer-reviewed), which purportedly show “robust” antibody response and “favorable” safety outcomes for children ages 5-11 who received a two-dose combo in clinical trials. Now, here are some facts all moms and dads must know about Pfizer before they allow their young daughters and sons to be guinea pigs of a profit-maximizing multinational corporation. Twenty-five years ago, Pfizer sent a team to Kano, Nigeria, during a meningococcal meningitis outbreak. They conducted an “open label” (unblinded) clinical trial involving 200 children, half of whom were given Pfizer’s new antibiotic Trovan and half of whom received

the gold standard treatment, language and education barriers. ceftriaxone. Watch dogs noted that One outraged African Pfizer used substantially lower newspaper demanded that the doses of ceftriaxone to rig the government “tell us whether our trials in favor of Trovan. children were used as guinea pigs At the time of the Kano trial, and, if so, who committed such Pfizer was pushing for approval criminality and who is liable.” from the Food and Drug After years of protracted litigation Administration of its latest with the pharmaceutical potential billion-dollar behemoth, Nigerian cash cow for pediatric use. families reached a $75 Eleven Nigerian children million out-of-court died, five after receiving settlement sealed with a Pfizer’s product and six confidentiality clause. after receiving lowerA separate than-normal doses of the whistleblower lawsuit older drug. Michelle Malkin filed by Pfizer’s former Pay close attention, associate medical parents. A Washington director for central Post investigation reported that research and Yale pediatric one 10-year-old girl suffering infectious disease specialist, from meningitis was not taken off Juan Walterspiel, alleged that the experimental Trovan and given company fired him in retaliation standard, proven treatments by for warning before and after Pfizer’s clinical trial operators the deadly Kano fiasco that the — when it was clear that her study methods were “improper condition was deteriorating. One and unsafe.” Walterspiel further of her eyes froze. She lost strength claimed that Pfizer had bribed and then died. Nigerian officials to continue A Nigerian doctor who the study and cut safety corners supervised the studies for Pfizer because “stock options and admitted that his office had bonuses (were) at stake.” “backdated an approval letter” Pfizer tried to suppress for the human trials, which “may Walterspiel’s allegations but was have been written a year after the forced into a settlement after study had taken place.” Informed WikiLeaks published diplomatic consent was undermined by cables showing that Pfizer had

attempted to dig up dirt on a Nigerian prosecutor to bully him into dropping lawsuits by state and federal authorities in Africa. A secret internal Nigerian government report, leaked years after it had been written, concluded that Pfizer violated international law by conducting an “illegal trial of an unregistered drug” and failing to inform children’s parents that the meningitis treatment was experimental. The government panel called the Trovan tragedy a “clear case of exploitation of the ignorant.” If you think this corruption was all an anomaly or misunderstood altruism or “misinformation,” I encourage you to start doing your own homework before your child’s health and life become just another cost of doing Big Pharma business. Search the internet and PubMed (while you still can) for “Pfizer,” “Celebrex,” “Bextra,” “Geodon,” “Zyvox,” “Lyrica” and “Neurontin.” Find out more about why Pfizer paid the largest fine for health care fraud in American history ($2.3 billion) in 2009 to resolve allegations that it illegally caused false claims to be submitted to the government and paid kickbacks

to healthcare providers to induce them to prescribe their products. Learn more about the nearly 3,000 people who developed suicidal thoughts and severe psychological disorders after taking Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug, Chantix. Pfizer paid out nearly $300 million to settle those cases. Or the nearly 10,000 women who won claims of $1 billion after developing breast cancer linked to Pfizer’s Prempro hormone replacement therapy. And just remember, parents, that the pandemic profiteers who stand to gain unprecedented, multibillion-dollar windfalls from endless vaccine boosters administered cradle to grave around the world have the most terrifying man-made immunity ever created: immunity from liability for their corner-cutting, life-endangering business model. 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.

just sued Facebook. I didn’t want to sue. I hate lawsuits. I tried for a year to reach someone at Facebook to fix things, but Facebook wouldn’t. Here’s the problem: Facebook uses “independent fact checkers” to try to reduce fake news on its site. That’s a noble goal. Unfortunately, at least one Facebook “fact checker” is a climate-alarmist group that cleverly uses its Facebook connections to stop debate. Facebook is a private company. It has every right to cut me off. But Facebook does not have the right to just lie about me, yet that’s exactly what Facebook and its “fact checker” did. That’s defamation, and it’s just wrong. My video this week shows videos that Facebook throttled. The defamation started with the fact checker, a group called Climate Feedback. The group didn’t like that my video reported facts suggesting that government mismanagement probably played a bigger role in causing California’s wildfires than climate change. Climate Feedback got Facebook to censor this as “misleading” and link to a page that still declares the following quote misleading: “Forest fires are caused by poor management. Not by climate change.” As if that were something I said. But I didn’t! I never said that. In fact, I said: “Climate change has made things worse. California has warmed 3 degrees.” I’ve worked at NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. All would have fired me if I falsely attributed a quote! I emailed Climate Feedback’s editor. She didn’t respond. But two of three scientists listed as their “reviewers” agreed to interviews. Stefan Doerr of Swansea University surprised me by saying he’d never even watched my video! “If this is implying that we have reviewed the video,” said Professor Doerr, “this is clearly wrong.” Another reviewer, Zeke Hausfather of The Please see STOSSEL on C4

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U.S. still standing, despite spending; why?

am shocked, shocked to find … gambling …” This famous statement from cynical Capt. Renault in the classic film “Casablanca” applies to analysis of government debt. Those most righteous are suspect. Context is important when evaluating debt. Last month marked the 10th anniversary of the dramatic downgrade of the U.S. government debt by influential ratings agency Standard & Poor’s in 2011. Solemnly, the selfappointed guardians of fiscal probity reduced the U.S. from the prized AAA rating.

Yet little note has been taken of Authorities focused from March this decade’s benchmark. That is to October 2007, just before the partly because S&P is declining market failed. The indictment in influence. alleged warnings from In February 2015, the the industry’s own company announced analysts were ignored for payment of $1.38 billion at least three years. to settle federal fraud When S&P was charges regarding charged, primed ratings of mortgagecompany attorney Floyd backed investments. Abrams responded Collapse of these immediately that the Arthur I. Cyr securities triggered Feds singled out his the global financial company. He argued meltdown that began in S&P was only guilty of 2007. optimism, along with other firms The agreement came two years and indeed the U.S. Treasury. after the U.S. Justice Department Simultaneously, S&P was began the prosecution. aggressively trying to preempt,

including the rating downgrade. Meanwhile, global demand for U.S. government bonds increased. The Feds declined to bring criminal charges against S&P. In Casablanca terms, the company caught a break. Company officials declared ending AAA reflected high and growing deficit and debt levels of the U.S. government, and doubts about capacity and will to correct the situation. Solemnly, the credit calculators announced the U.S. was becoming a less worthy borrower. An NPR interviewer at the time asked S&P representatives

about their shocking lapses in evaluating businesses. One executive responded that another section of the company handled those matters. In “Casablanca” vernacular, the S&P front man played dumb and passed the buck. Which brings us to President Harry Truman, who displayed a sign on his desk in the Oval Office stating “The Buck Stops Here.” Truman and other Allied leaders of that time faced seemingly endless challenges, including World War II, the Cold War that began soon after defeat of the Please see CYR on C4

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The time for an avowedly ‘neutral’ legal positivism has long passed HAMMER

Continued from Page C1 Scalia, who once wrote: “Long live formalism. It is what makes a government a government of laws and not of men.” In a similar vein, then-Judge John G. Roberts famously said at his 2005 confirmation hearing to be the Supreme Court chief justice that the role of a judge is analogous to a baseball umpire whose “job” it is to “call balls and strikes.” (Query

whether the chief has since lived up to that standard.) Justice Sotomayor’s “gaffe” is yet another eye-opening insight into the legal left’s view of the courts: that of transparently political institutions pliable to political (read: judicial) actors’ sheer force of will. The remedy, at this increasingly late hour of the American republic, is not for the legal right to wholly abandon its more traditional, “formalist” fidelities to constitutional text, structure and history, but rather

to embrace a more holistic, morally imbued and substantive conception of the relevant text, structure and history. The time for an avowedly “neutral” legal positivism has long passed, if it was ever felicitous to begin with. The legal right should not stoop to the legal left’s level, but it must get comfortable with a jurisprudence unabashedly rooted in the morality and justice of the American Founding and substantively oriented to reclaiming that morality and justice from those

who seek to destroy it. There are now foxes guarding the marble palace henhouse. Legal conservatives must wake up to that challenge, lest they be complicit in their own subjugation. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators. com. COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM

Climate scientists argue that we are not ‘doomed’ STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 Breakthrough Institute, hadn’t seen the video either. “I certainly did not write a Climate Feedback piece reviewing your segment.” After he watched it, I asked, “Is (misleading) a fair label?” “I don’t necessarily think so,” he replied. “While there are plenty of debates around how much to emphasize fire management versus climate change, your piece clearly discussed that both were at fault.” Still, neither Climate Feedback nor Facebook will change their smear. Then things got worse. I re-aired a video on climate change myths titled “Are We Doomed?” Three climate scientists argue that we are not “doomed” because we can adapt to climate change. They invited climate alarmists to debate them. None would. Climate Feedback got Facebook to throttle that video, too, and declare it “partly false.” Why? Only one of their reviewers agreed to an interview. Patrick Brown of San Jose State University didn’t like that my video suggests America can adjust to rising sea levels. He claimed sea levels could rise 200 feet. “You’re citing an extreme,” I pointed out. “The (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) doesn’t consider that likely.” “I don’t know if they assess sea level rise out to 1,000 years,” he responded. They don’t. It’s absurd that Facebook lets Climate Feedback censor me over something that might happen in 1,000 years. Climate Feedback also cited my

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My takeaway from all of this is that individuals with natural immunity do not need to get the vaccine if they do not want it. The protection they have is far better than that afforded by the vaccine. The CDC is intentionally not reporting the infection rate of

Continued from Page C1 testing will be in lieu of the vaccine. If the science says even the vaccinated can get COVID and therefore transmit COVID, shouldn’t there still be testing of the vaccinated? It is more money for testing, more money for Big Pharma. Speaking of more money, a Vandalia, Ill., school mother followed the money and found that the schools are given state and federal funds or grants for masking and injecting students. At one end of the carrot is 5 billion, 55 million dollars for COVIDrelated protocols/expenses under Operational Strategy for the state of Illinois schools. This women’s school district alone was slated to receive $5,570,640. This equals $3,946 a student. Where is the money going? It seems the people who profit from sales of the product influence school policy. What is our school board getting for these authoritarian mandates? Several elected school board officials in Santa Barbara can decide the fate of your children, and teachers, because they know better than you do? School boards are elected to oversee the running of the school district and that the students are educated. Yet the stats show the failures of their lack of success. The number of students who graduate or not, with a proficient ability to read, write and do math to operate successfully in life, is dismal. Of course, our school board is too busy, distracted by things that now include mandated vaccines. It is said that the research and development of drugs is financed 45% by big pharma. How can the doctors who get bonuses or unknowingly bad information from the pharmaceutical rep, not refrain from recommending said products? That business plan has been going on for decades. Remember the opioid crisis brought to you by big pharma? (The

persons with natural immunity. The CDC seeks to mislead the American public to encourage vaccines for those who do not need them and may not want them. This is a bad policy, and it’s bad science. Or is it good politics? You decide. Jeff Barton Santa Barbara

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video for questioning the claim that hurricanes have gotten stronger. But Dr. Brown, Climate Feedback’s own reviewer, said, “That’s wrong that you were criticized for saying that. ... The IPCC (doesn’t) claim that (hurricanes) ... are increasing.” Later, Dr. Brown told us I was cited for “omission of contextual information, rather than specific ‘facts’ being ‘wrong.’” So their “fact check” wasn’t about actual facts? Still, they rated my video “partly

false,” which Facebook defines as content that “includes some factual inaccuracies.” My video did not contain any factual inaccuracies, and they know it. Climate Feedback and its parent group, Science Feedback, use Facebook to censor lots of responsible people, such as science writers John Tierney, Michael Shellenberger and Bjorn Lomborg. Facebook has every right to choose who can use its platform. But Facebook does not have a legal right to knowingly and

recklessly lie about what I say. That’s defamation. I hope my lawsuit will make them think twice about doing it again — to me or to anyone else. 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.

Our homeland is flooded with unvetted immigrants DONOVAN

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The Santa Barbara Unified School District recently became the first one in Santa Barbara County to require all of its staff to get vaccines, although the board says religious and medical exemptions will be considered. The option for testing has been removed. In his letter to the News-Press, Santa Barbara resident Jeff Barton is questioning the need for vaccinations for individuals with natural immunity.

Sackler Family-Purdue Pharma). It’s not over, and many live with the devastation of human beings left behind with alive or dead members of their family. What about the attorneys advertising for the class action lawsuits for damages done to patients due to drugs or treatment, as with the opioid crisis? Yet the pharmaceuticals were allowed an agreement that does not hold the drug companies responsible for injuries from vaccine injections, which no one talks about. Doesn’t that say enough to beware? What’s in it for our government and for big pharma? We understand big pharma making billions, but our own country working against us? We are being locked down, forced a vaccine and threatened with loss of employment, freedom in society, all in the name of protecting us. Yet our homeland is flooded with unvetted immigrants released into our country to unsuspecting communities, bringing with them unknown amounts of disease and COVID all with their own variants. And we are silenced. Witness Lt. Col. Schiller, who is arrested for demanding accountability in the abominable Afghanistan withdrawal and sits in the brig for questioning authority. Meanwhile, our border is so overwhelmed with illegal immigrants lined up to gain entry that the White House press secretary answered that they weren’t tested or vaccinated for COVID “because they won’t be here that long.” It’s classic insanity. President Joe Biden is blocking monoclonal antibodies in Florida as he drops busloads of illegals and denies the Navy Seals who are rescuing Americans in Afghanistan entry into the U.S. They were told their private chartered planes will not be allowed to land in America even via a third country. Perhaps they should land in Mexico and get in line. Where does Rep. Carbajal stand on this? He sits on the committee investigating what happened in

Afghanistan. On our home front, city council and mayoral elections are coming, and the candidates are talking about the problems facing the city — the same old, same old. Too many homeless, too little housing, not enough water, not enough good paying jobs, environments are threatened and little visible action or leadership. Except for oversized building, lack of parking, traffic lanes whittled down or taken for bike-less lanes. Overreach of our local government via agreements for Project Labor Agreements, rental relocation fees charged to the landlord, tons of money awarded to CitiNet for homeless help. We hope you make time to watch the forums for our local mayoral and city council elections held less than five weeks away. On the candidates, here’s what we have noticed so far. In a recent forum for District 6 council candidates, incumbent Meagan Harmon was asked if she believed the Santa Barbara Police Department was systemically racist, and if so, what data she had to back that up that assertion. Ms. Harmon replied that systemic racism exists in every institution in America, and that though she didn’t have any data she could point to, she believes that systemic racism is there in the police department. Though she said quite a lot, she couldn’t answer the question. It was a bravura performance of tautological reasoning. Of course, systemic racism is there — it’s systemic. Also running for the District 6 seat is Nina Johnson, a city employee of 25 years with experience as senior assistant to the city administrator. This imbues her with the knowledge of how the city does and doesn’t work. Other candidates are Jason Carleton, a local union electrical contractor, and Zachary Pike, a disc jockey. For Council District 4, incumbent Kristin Sneddon is running against a novice, Planning Commissioner Barrett Reid. The two could be described

as different sides of a coin. On the mayor’s race, the debates are not to be missed and worthy of repeats. Boat Rat Matt Kilrain needs a Hollywood agent, charming and off the charts. Some of what he says is interesting, and some ideas are absurd. Currency of Santa Barbara? Have any of you ever seen mayoral candidate James Joyce at a meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council, Planning Commission, Architectural Board of Review, Historica Landmarks Commission? Neither have we. Another mayoral candidate, Planning Commission Chair Deborah Schwartz, has a S.A.F.E. plan for Santa Barbara. Businessman Mark Whitehurst supports a living wage and pays his employees as such. Former Santa Barbara City Council member Randy Rowse, who’s running for mayor, has presented not just level-headed answers for everything, but also a possible viable solution to assist the homeless with mental issues, for the long term, in ways that may enable them to re-engage with society. All challenge the incumbent, Cathy Murillo, who represents the same old, same old. The Santa Barbara Police Officers’ Association has taken a stand of “no confidence” with the present city council and the incumbents running for reelection. Many interested parties including news outlets are Monday-morning-quarter-backing the POA’s position. No one can know what they know until you stand in their shoes. On this we agree. Has anybody seen Han Solo? We need him — and more. “The more corrupt the state, the more laws.” — Tacitus Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

executive branch or Congress? 6. What are the White House interests in departing Afghanistan according to a predetermined date instead of meeting the needs of its soldiers and allies? What are the White House interests in leaving all the taxpayers’ military equipment in Afghanistan for use by the Taliban? 7. What are the White House interests in having Dr. Fauci lecture us on COVID-19 after his own emails show he was instrumental in funding the research for COVID before lying about it to Congress? Does this White House think his lying to Congress is less serious than allegedly lying to the FBI that caused a war of attrition against Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and others? 8. What are the White House interests in 18 months after COVID hit the U.S. having Dr. Fauci and others continue to use studies from Israel and India rather than have the CDC, NIH or any other U.S. agency, conduct their own studies? 9. What are the White House interests in permitting the vice president to travel to California to campaign for the governor rather than pursue her responsibilities for the border? Same question for the presidents’ campaign trip to California. 10. Last but not least, what are the White House interests in

trying to pass a bill spending an estimated $5.5 trillion — 26% of the $20.43 trillion GDP in 2019 — which is in addition to the “normal” GDP expenses while the inflation rate for 2021 is already running at +6.3% when the ideal rate is 2.2%? Do you think the White House interests were to enhance the lives of you, or other U.S. citizens? It’s a shame the party that promised to unite avoided not only “mutual interest” bargaining but even “positional” bargaining. Heck, even four golfers-writers immediately understood that to “get Democrats taking to Republicans” required that Democrats care about the slightly less than half the voters who voted for the “other” party. Dare I suggest they would benefit from more time on the golf course like, well you know who? If you do not agree with the White House interests, consider contacting your elected representatives and encourage them to pursue mutual interest bargaining. Brent Zepke is an attorney and author who lives in Santa Barbara. He has been a faculty member at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One Heart-Two Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer,” and “Law for NonLawyers.”

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Axis powers, the Korean War and a U.S. debt greater than today’s. New federal programs to aid the retired and unemployed, educate millions of returning veterans, and regulate labor and management were uncertain. Yet S&P did not downgrade the United States at that time. Why not? Because equating the U.S. national government, which commands vast actual and potential assets, with the balance sheets of even enormous commercial corporations is absurd. In that turbulent earlier time, national unity was essential, and big business was suspect. No credit ratings company dared “downgrade” our government. S&P publications of that era reveal a Wall Street cheerleader, constantly exhorting people to buy stocks,

described as undervalued. Yet the public remained unconvinced. For years after the Great Depression, credit ratings firms were widely regarded as shills for Wall Street. Stock prices did not rise to levels predating the 1929 crash until 1954. Since the severe international financial recession of 20072009, financial services firms have fought re-regulation by Washington. Instead, they should aggressively clean house. The enormous growth in government spending because of the pandemic provides opportunities for honest risk analysis. A market correction is coming. Arthur I. Cyr is the author of “After the Cold War” (NYU Press and Palgrave/Macmillan), “Liberal Politics in Britain” and other books. He is the Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc. Contact him at arthuri. cyr@gmail.com