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Walk to End Alzheimer’s returns to Chase Palm Park

Rep. Carbajal Votes to Pass Infrastructure Bill By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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Participants of this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s leave Chase Palm Park to begin their walk on Saturday.

On Friday, Rep. Salud Carbajal voted to pass H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, joining most of his fellow democrats as well as 13 republicans who voted in favor of the bill. The House vote was 228206 in favor of the bill. Only six democrats voted against the bill, joining the majority of republicans. The bill represents a once-in-ageneration investment intended to create good-paying jobs, rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, address climate issues and position the nation to compete in the 21st Century economy. This bill is the largest federal investment in history in public transit, broadband, clean energy transmission and clean water infrastructure. “Today I’m excited to vote for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which will create millions of good paying jobs and modernize our infrastructure throughout our country and the central coast. It will repair our roads and bridges. It will improve our public transit and it will make significant and historic investments to our broadband and internet connectivity, as well as our clean water infrastructure. Today is an important day for our country and the Central Coast in

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improving the lives of Americans and working middle class families,” Mr. Carbajal said on the day of the vote. The bill contains a measure based on Mr. Carbajal’s Forest Act which increases funding for the forest service to maintain roads and infrastructure to more effectively fight trees. “I have spoken to constituents and local officials across the Central Coast and they have made it clear that federal investment in local infrastructure would be transformative for our economy and quality of life. Today I proudly Please see BILL on A3

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The Walk to End Azheimer’s returned to Chase Palm Park in Santa Barbara on Friday, after a hiatus in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic. More than 500 participants walked all over Santa Barbara, starting at 9 a.m., to raise money to end Alzheimer’s disease. The majority of participants, about 400, walked the 3.1 mile loop along E. Cabrillo Blvd, starting from Chase Palm Park. There were two additional teams walking at different locations in Santa Barbara County, with one team walking at Lake Los Carneros and another in Carpintera. The event featured a poignant Promise Garden - a mission-focused experience signifying solidarity in the fight against the disease. The colors of the Promise Garden flowers signify their connection to Alzheimer’s - their personal reasons to end the disease. Purple signifies having lost someone to the disease, blue means you are currently living with the disease, yellow signifies that you are a caregiver or loved one and orange signifies that you Please see WALK on A5

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(The Center Square) – Congressional Republicans say they will fight a White House plan to pay up to $450,000 in reparations to migrants separated from their families under the Trump administration after entering the country illegally. After The Wall Street Journal reported on the plan last week, President Joe Biden called the report “garbage,” only to be corrected by his spokesperson the next day.

At issue is former President Donald Trump’s policy of prosecuting all adults who entered the country illegally, in accordance with federal immigration law, including those with children. The Biden administration rescinded the policy, along with many other immigration enforcement efforts. The New York Times estimates that roughly 5,500 children were separated from their parents as a result of the policies. The American Civil Liberties Union Please see IMMIGRATION on A6

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UCSB beats Cal State Bakersfield in volleyball set as the Gauchos parlayed the first set momentum into a 7-0 opening run. UCSB outhit CSUB .333 to .074 and led by as much as eight at 20-12. Deni Wilson found four blocks in the set. UCSB won the third set 25-17. Once again CSUB only managed to have one lead in the final set at 1-0. The roadrunners kept it close early but the determined Gauchos rode a 6-1 run to an 18-13 lead and never looked back. Tallulah Froley had four kills in the set. Daniel Moebus-Bowles works in communications/media relations at UCSB. email: dmason@newspress.com

City College beats Moorpark in volleyball By MICHAEL JORGENSON SBCC SPORTS WRITER

The No. 13 Santa Barbara City College women’s volleyball team claimed one of its best wins of the year Friday night on the road, coming up big when it mattered the most to defeat No. 8 Moorpark in five sets. The scores at the home match were 21-25, 25-22, 2520, 12-25 and 15-3. The Vaqueros (19-4 overall, 6-2 WSC) improved to 4-0 in five set matches this season. The 12-point differential in set five was easily their most lopsided of 2021. They defeated a hot Moorpark (15-5, 7-2) team that just finished a perfect 8-0 month of October, which included a four-set win at Santa Barbara. “Tonight’s win was sweet revenge for the earlier season loss. It was a battle back-and-forth between both teams, and I am so proud of how we stepped up and dominated the 5th set,” head coach Kat Niksto said. “Libero Jacelin Mckie was phenomenal on defense and on serve receive. She kept so many balls up that extended rallies for us and led to points. “Right side Lola Bunn stepped up big time, helped contain Moorpark’s best hitter with her blocking, and was a spark on offense with her quick tempo hitting.” For the second straight match, it was Bunn who led the Vaqueros in the attacking game, as she posted a season-best 12 kills on 34 swings. Opposite Caroline

SBCC beats Allan Hancock 9-0 in women’s soccer By MICHAEL JORGENSON SBCC SPORTS WRITER

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Men’s soccer team from SBCC defeats Moorpark 4-0 By MICHAEL JORGENSON SBCC SPORTS WRITER

The Santa Barbara City College men’s soccer team swept its season-series with Moorpark, shutting out the Raiders on Friday to claim a 4-0 victory on the road. Sophomore forward Bart Muns entered the day as the Western State Conference’s leader in both goals and points, and that lead would only increase following his first three-goal performance of the season. Muns scored in the 10th, 58th and 70th minutes, giving him 15 goals for the year — five more than any other player. He has five multi-goal outings in 15 appearances in 2021. Sophomore defender Juan Zarate put away the Vaqueros’ (11-4-3 overall, 5-2-1 WSC) other goal in the 68th minute. He was assisted by midfielder Paulo Carrillo-Weisenburger,

who returned from a two-game absence with a leg injury. The LA Galaxy Academy product Carrillo-Weisenburger set up two goals on the day, making him the first WSC player to reach the 10-assist mark. Freshmen Will Demirkol and Joe Wouters Van den Oudenweijer also recorded assists. Goalkeeper Sunny Dhaliwal finished with five saves. This was the Vaqueros’ sixth shutout of the season and their first shutout win since late September. They will be back home Tuesday, Nov. 9 for their regular season home finale against L.A. Mission at 7 p.m.

Santa Barbara did it! We collectively voted out the DCC and elected an independent candidate, Randy Rowse, as mayor. He’s the one who ran on fixing our sidewalks, our roads — a selfproclaimed “pothole politician” That’s what we want and need, someone who will take time to take care of the city, do the maintenance, and lead us in a direction that protects and serves Santa Barbara. Enough of the distractions by outside influences! Congratulations, Randy, and thank you, Mrs. Rowse, for sharing Randy with us for the next five years. Thank you to all the candidates who took the time and energy to campaign. It’s grueling to care. Now we can return to concentrating on the vital issues in our own backyard. The pendulum has swung, and the campaign signs and fliers, and accusations can be put to rest. Think about it. We rail against so many things wrong worldwide, that we cannot, at this moment do anything about. Yet look at what is happening in our own backyard, and we can do

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GLENDORA — The topseeded SBCC women’s water polo team cruised to a 163 semifinal victory over L.A. Valley on Friday at the Western State Conference Tournament hosted by Citrus College. The Vaqueros (25-6, 6-0) got three-score performances out of three different players, as Ensley Letterman, Megan Ditlof and Eden Tal all tied for the team-lead. Emily Clapham and Emily Lopez both scored twice. Lopez’ goal was the lone score of the opening period. The Vaqueros extended their lead to 6-1 at halftime, receiving a pair of goals from both Ditlof and Tal in the second quarter. SBCC would end the game on a 7-0 run, bookended by goals from Allison Kay and Lauren Tuxill. Kara Hughes rounded out the Vaquero goalscorers with a first half score of her own. Clapham led the defense with five steals, while Ditlof and Alliyah Gavia finished with four each. Goalkeeper Chloe Mckay recorded three saves. Michael Jorgenson works in communications/media relations at Santa Barbara City College. email: dmason@newspress.com

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New Santa Barbara mayor-elect is good news; proposed Munger Hall isn’t Editor’s note: Bonnie Donovan’s column normally appears in the Voices section, but is being published in the A section today for logistical reasons. Her column will return to Voices next Sunday.

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something about that. We have spoken about this before, this house of horrors planned for student dorms at UCSB – Munger Hall, under the guise of Charlie Munger’s philanthropy and a weak attempt to provide needed housing for the overexpansion of the student population, which has become everyone’s housing crisis. As proposed, Munger Hall would be 11 stories and house 4,500 students with 512 units on each floor. Ninety-four percent of the rooms would be without windows, fresh air or natural light. How much energy would go into the mechanical systems required to keep the student rooms ventilated properly? Additionally, hasn’t COVID just taught us that natural air is so important for our health. Not to mention our circadian rhythm. We are blessed as a community. We live in what is arguably one of the most beautiful and temperate places on Earth, where the mountains meet the sand. The geographic and architectural beauty, as well as, our mild climate attract some of the globe’s wealthiest and renown individuals. Please see DONOVAN on A3

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The Santa Barbara City College women’s soccer team never took its foot off the gas pedal Friday night at La Playa Stadium, scoring its most goals in more than three years in a 9-0 drubbing of Allan Hancock. In the last meeting between the two sides less than four weeks ago, the Vaqueros (95-3 overall, 5-2-3 WSC) erased a two-goal deficit to tie the Bulldogs (4-10-3, 2-6-2) on the road. This time around, things went much differently, as SBCC jumped out to a fivegoal lead before halftime. Forward Theresa English (5th, 31st, 44th) scored all three of her goals in the first half, securing the Vaqueros’ second hat trick of the season. Left winger Monica Pizano — who owns the other hat trick — scored twice in the second half. Her first goal in the 68th minute gave English her fourth assist of the year. Pizano (22 points) and English (20) now sit atop the Vaquero charts with nine and eight goals, respectively, and share the team-lead in assists (4). Hanna Crawford (20th minute) and Natani KentEarle (41st) scored SBCC’s other first half goals. Sofia Orozco put a free kick into the back of the net in the 64th minute. Helene Lervik and Pizano capped things off to make it 9-0 with goals in the final four minutes of the match. Eight different Vaqueros tallied an assist on the day. SBCC scored at least six goals for the third time in 2021. The Vaquero defense didn’t allow a single shot on goal while clinching its third consecutive shutout. Following its regular season home finale, SBCC hits the road for its last two ahead of the postseason. The Vaqueros will head to Oxnard next Tuesday for a 1 p.m. match.

McCarty was second on the team with nine kills. The consistent Mckie finished with a team-high 13 digs, reaching double-figures for the 16th time in 22 matches this year. “Emma Crabbe and Sophie Ward shared the setting duties and both helped make their hitters better,” Niksto said. “Middles Karoline Ruiz and Paige Rudi also provided big blocks and were a force to be reckoned with offensively.” Crabbe went for 39 assists while Ward tallied 14. Ruiz recorded six blocks for the second time in three outings, while Rudi added three of her own. Both middles were third on the team with seven kills apiece. Outside hitter Piper Ellbogn-Pettersen chipped in with six kills. “Jordyn Anderson came in the back row and helped stabilize the passing and made some big digs as well, and outsides Caroline and Piper worked hard all night, taking a ton of quality swings from the left,” said Niksto. “I’m so proud of how hard this team worked and fought tonight.” SBCC heads to L.A. Pierce for its next match at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The Vaqueros will then return home for their regular season finale against L.A. Mission on Friday.

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The UCSB women’s volleyball team won its fifth straight match 3-0 Friday night, sweeping Cal State Bakersfield to improve to 12-1 in Big West play. The Gauchos have swept the regular season series against three different opponents now. During the home match, UCSB outhit CSUB .348 to 0.94, had 44 kills to the visitors’ 26, and outblocked the team nine to three. The Gauchos’ Rowan Ennis missed on just two swings, posting a 6-1-8 line for a .625 hitting percentage to go with three blocks, three digs and two aces. Deni Wilson had a potent 9-1-14 line for a .571

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By MADISON HIRNEISEN (The Center Square) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced the creation of a Housing Strike Force within the state’s Department of Justice. The strike force will aim to address access to housing, affordability and equity across the state. It will focus on enforcing tenant rights and protections, issuing guidance letters to local governments on state housing laws and advocating with state legislatures to advance a right to housing, according to a

news release from the attorney general’s office. “California is facing a housing shortage and affordability crisis of epic proportions,” Mr. Bonta said in a statement. “Every day, millions of Californians worry about keeping a roof over their head, and there are too many across this state who lack housing altogether.” The formation of the strike force comes at a time when housing and rent costs are skyrocketing for home owners and tenants statewide. The majority of the state’s 17 million renters spend a significant

portion of their paychecks on rent, and the state currently has some of the lowest homeownership rates since the 1940s. Currently, the median price of a singlefamily home in the state is more than $800,000. In addition, the state continues to have a disproportionate share of the nation’s homeless, with an estimated 150,000 state residents sleeping in cars, in shelters or on the street. “Our Housing Strike Force, along with the tenant roundtables and Housing Portal, will allow the DOJ to ramp up our efforts to tackle this crisis and advance

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housing access, affordability, and equity across California,” Mr. Bonta said. “This is a top priority and a fight we won’t back down from. As attorney general, I am committed to using all the tools my office has available to advance Californians’ fundamental right to housing.” In addition to the strike force, the DOJ has launched a new housing portal with resources for homeowners and tenants across the state. The attorney general has also announced plans to host a series of roundtables across the state in the coming months to connect with tenant groups.

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Continued from Page A1 cast my vote for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will provide the funding needed to expand internet connectivity, fix dilapidated roads and bridges, and improve our public transit and clean water infrastructure. With this box checked, we now turn to passing the Build Back Better Act, which will create new jobs in the clean energy economy and give working middle-class families a tax break by cutting down on the costs of child care, senior care, and health care. These investments in our infrastructure and in working families will

make us a better, stronger country,” said Mr. Carbajal. “We are ready for transformative action on a federal level to address the persistent backlog of transportation infrastructure and public transit options for our communities. We are encouraged and excited about the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and will work with Congressman Carbajal to take advantage of the opportunities the bill presents for strong federal support on high priority projects in our region like the U.S. 101 Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project, protection of resources for transit partners, and new investments for a climate-resilient future,” said Marjie Kirn, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara County Association of

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Continued from Page A2 And it is the reason that those who are less affluent or influential remain — regardless of the struggle to do so. We have an abundance of philanthropic organizations that are supported by those who graciously choose to give, and our community is made up of many who either have the means to maintain and improve their high-end properties or have the knowledge and local resources to be able to do the same for their modest residences. There has and always should remain a mutual respect in our town between those of means and those who serve because each needs the other. But something has shifted in our little piece of paradise. Much like the temperature of the air in the last weeks, something feels colder. As a result of shifting global wealth and the pandemic that has driven people out of the density of the cities, we are seeing a plethora of newcomers move into Santa Barbara. Why are they here? Because of the weather, the beauty, the history, and the people. But rather than moving in quietly, remaining humble and getting to know their new town, how it functions and respecting those traditions, more and more it feels like the newcomers are here to give and be seen. While this is already evident when driving and engaging with the newbies around town, it becomes even more obnoxiously evident when one looks at the shift in philanthropy and projects in the queue that are being reviewed by our local design review boards — the new modern, alas bad, Malibu homes (or the prairie lookalike farmhouses transplanted straight from an HGTV episode), increased density in downtown and taller buildings. The proposed Munger dorm project at UCSB is the quintessential example of all that is going wrong and merits a quick local discussion beyond all that

has been swirling in the national press. UCSB was originally a marine naval base. In the latter part of the 1940s and ’50s, the site was secured, and the university began master planning efforts for the campus. The campus hired architects like Luckman and Pereira to complete master planning efforts for the campus and to design anchor buildings that embraced the Southern California building styles of the period, while ensuring sensitivity to the local Mediterranean vernacular: terra cotta roofs, courtyards that took advantage of the cool afternoon breezes and sunny days. These buildings with amazing covered walkways, breeze block walls and courtyards that embrace transitional, indoor/ outdoor spaces have served as the backbone for campus design for years. Under the direction of the campus architect and Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services Marc Fisher (who served in 2002-2017), this tradition was furthered with the campus’ long range development plan. The Design Review Committee was a critical part of the vetting process for projects and further ensured the quality and consistency of design approach on the campus. But the combination of a big donor and an aging chancellor, both of whom appear to disdain architects and aspire to leave a legacy with their names on it, are well on their way to doing so, albeit a bad one. One just has to look at the style of the proposed residence hall that Mr. Munger has proposed to realize there is absolutely no connection to the local vernacular. This building would probably make sense where Mr. Munger has “given” and demanded that his design be implemented, like Michigan with inclement weather. But that is not how we live here in Santa Barbara, Charlie. And that is not how we give here in Santa Barbara, Charlie. Here, we don’t honk unless someone is about to be run over.

We don’t assume the wealth of anyone — because the person in the cut offs and flip flops is probably worth a lot more than anyone would expect. We appreciate history, revere and embrace it. We move in slowly, get to know our neighbors who become friends, we open our hearts, windows, and wallets without asking for anything in return — especially during COVID! And we don’t impose and transplant architecture that isn’t born of local tradition. The proposed Munger Hall is so horrendous, an architect on the UCSB Design Review Committee for 15 years, Dennis McFadden, resigned in protest Oct. 25. He said the massive, mostly windowless dormitory is “unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent and a human being.” Mr. Munger isn’t even paying for the whole project. His donation of $200 million is only 13% of a $1.5-billion building. By the way, Mr. Munger’s design, including the windowless rooms for the students, is a condition of his gift. Why would UCSB allow Mr. Munger to dictate how $1.3 billion of university money will be spent? Especially when the regents/ students/taxpayers will carry the rest of the cost. It appears the super rich now hold the keys to the public realm. Editor’s note: After Bonnie Donovan wrote this column, the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Institute of Architects issued a statement opposing the proposed design for Munger Hall, which was reported in Saturday’s News-Press. It was signed by a long list of AIA members and AIA Fellows. Bonnie Donovan writes “Did You Know?” in conjunction with a nonpartisan group of citizens. Her column normally runs in the Voices section on Sundays in the NewsPress, and it will be there again next Sunday.

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From hungry to well-fed First, a look at homelessness in California; then another topic: Coast Village Road restaurants

alifornia is the hostess with the mostess for homeless folks. Five of its cities are in the top 10 hit parade of largest homeless populations. Los Angeles ranks No. 2 in the whole U.S.A. San Jose is No. 4. San Diego is No. 5. San Francisco is No. 6. And Oakland No. 7. Congratulations are due Gov. Gavin Newsom. Maybe President Joe Biden will award him a pen to sign his next hotel giveaway. Or Speaker Nancy Pelosi could dig into her $20,000 deep freeze and gift him with a gourmet popsicle. Is it any surprise to anyone that all 10 cities (the others are New York City, Phoenix, Boston and Washington, D.C,) are in blue states (or in Washington’s case, a blue district)? Of course not. But why are so many homeless in California? One could credit (or blame, depending on your level of impatience or compassion) the temperate climate — and that would certainly be a factor. Warmer weather, obviously, lessens the hardship of finding shelter and staving off the cold. Another key factor (generally, but especially in California) is the high cost of homes. But to a greater degree it is the hospitality shown to the homeless by the state’s Democratic Party machine — an open invitation, along with sanctuary cities, to the welfare state, just like Joe Biden’s open-door policy to wannabe refugees from Mexico, Central America and Haiti (and maybe the

odd ISIS terrorist) who illegally enter and remain in the United States. “We get you a hotel room, which you may trash, the taxpayer foots the bill (as always) — and we get your vote, which we use to better centralize our authority and gain more control over your lives and liberties!” Another reason is a doublestandard deployed by city supervisors that generously favors street folk: if you are homeless and expose yourself to urinate or defecate on a public sidewalk in front of women and children, the cops are supposed to turn a blind eye. But if you are not homeless and do the same, you can be arrested and registered as a sex offender. It is one thing to be compassionate. It is quite another to a) make the hardworking taxpayer support this while the government prints money out of thin air, thus giving rise to massive inflation, and b) to put the quality of life of everyone else in jeopardy while those whose policies are responsible for this (Gov. Newsom, Speaker Pelosi, various mayors) reside in gated communities or behind high walls, insulated from the squalor and aggression. Another factor is the 1960s deinstitutionalizing of the mentally ill due to lack of funds and the civil liberties movement campaign to set them loose. As a result, psychiatric hospitalizations dropped by 75%. Understand, this wasn’t because there is any less insanity. If anything, mental illness is on the rise, thanks largely to anti-social

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media, if kept partly under wraps by the advent of SSRI medications such as Prozac and Zoloft — and those willing to remain on their meds. (Many don’t). But there’s another issue: History has shown that homelessness — a term first used after the Civil War — directly relates to jobs — i.e., industrialization and manufacturing. Once upon a time, this country manufactured everything from automobiles to clothing to pharmaceuticals to radios and television sets. However, over the last 30 years the trend has been to subcontract almost all manufacturing to China, which utilizes their most plentiful commodity, people (read: slave labor) to produce almost everything we consume. The Chinese state and elite have grown richer, and we have gotten poorer. In fact, we’re in a negative position — a deficit. Which is just a fancy economist’s way of saying broke. But not just broke. We’re in

massive debt. A debt that has literally gone through a ceiling that Washington keeps babbling about. (Meantime, China invests its new found wealth in building a new stable of nuclear weapons.) In 2010, President Barack Obama designed a federal strategic plan to end homelessness, But, like closing down Guantanamo, it was just another of his failed policies. The federal plan did, however, strategically end homelessness for the Obama family after they vacated the White House. They now own large, ultra-pricey homes in Chicago ($4.75 million), in Washington, D.C. ($8.1 million) and on Martha’s Vineyard ($11.75 million). Compare all that to Harry Truman driving home to his modest house in Independence, Mo.

FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT The answer to homelessness is the saddest part of this story. Historically, it is a wartime economy that saves the day, creating new jobs, shaking the emotionally fragile back to their senses and putting everyone back to work — the mining of metals, manufacturing, distribution, etc. And it’s coming. Just read between the lines of mass media, on both sides of the great divide. We are slowly but most assuredly being revved up for the coming war against China. That’s why you’re now reading a slew of articles about how China imprisons and tortures its Islamic minority — the Uighurs in China’s

Xinjiang province — and utilizes its healthy political prisoners for organ harvesting. Realize, please, the Chinese have been practicing these despicable acts for decades. But only now — post-COVID lockdowns and Chinese aggression against its neighbors (especially Taiwan) — are we inundated with such news as the anti-China “group fantasy” fertilize. Call it a collective subconscious or, if you’re motivated, look up Lloyd deMause and his brainchild Psychohistory, a confluence of sociology and psychology that attempts to answer the “why” of history. When it comes time to go to war, those in charge will want everyone of conscription age sufficiently motivated to swarm the enlistment centers, just like after 9/11 and … uh, wha …? our incursions into … Afghanistan? Yeah, right. Lesson: Don’t buy yet another false bill of goods that leaves you or those you love dead or limbless while politicians and captains of commerce command the action from a safe distance far away and make themselves and their arms-dealer buddies ridiculously rich — then bail and run when it better suits their own political interests and agendas. Please ask your children to listen to Jon Prine’s song “Hello in There”;

“We lost Davey in the Korean War. “Still don’t know what for. “Don’t matter anymore.” Or, as Steve Taylor writes in his new book, “Extraordinary Awakenings,” “War is the result of an intensified sense of ego, which causes the lack of empathy for others and a need for group identity. At the same time, it is the result of an elite group of psychopaths who hold power over the majority of people, forcing them to further their demented aims and using propaganda to help distort public opinion in their favor.” Affixed to the wall of Ms. Tranoy’s humanities course at the American School in London in 1972 was this sign: “Civilization took a step backward the day leaders stopped leading their troops into battle.” Message: Don’t sign up for a war unless those declaring it lead the battle charge in front of you.

BUT I’M GETTING CARRIED AWAY WITH MYSELF SO... With Thanksgiving looming and the feasting of food on everyone’s mind, let’s lighten up and shift 180-degrees from the homeless and hungry to the amply-sheltered and well-fed as we cruise down Coast Village Road in Montecito seeking contentment and sometimes finding calamity along Please see INVESTIGATOR on A4

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WOOD, Michael V.

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On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Michael Wood, son of Vincent and Judy Wood passed away at the age of 55. Michael was born September 15, 1966 in Newport Beach, CA and lived there with his parents and siblings until 1971. That year he moved with his family to Santa Barbara, CA. Mike attended Cleveland School, Santa Barbara Jr. High and Santa Barbara High School.

He married Diane Meyers in 1960. In 1961 they moved to Santa Barbara to work for Santa Barbara Research where he helped design many space projects including guidance for the Surveyor spacecraft and many earth and weather satellite projects. When he retired in 1993 he was Manager of the Engineering Services Laboratory.

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George Alexander Bunson passed away on October 25, 2021 surrounded by his family in Santa Barbara, CA.

George is survived by his wife of 61 years Diane; children Diane Greenwood, George (Traci) and grandchildren, Darren Hitchman, Corinna Hitchman, David Bunson and Kathy (Tristin) Stromberg. A family memorial will be held in San Diego in December. ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV GRQDWLRQV PD\ EH VHQW WR $/= 6DQWD %DUEDUD RU $VVLVWHG +RVSLFH Care in George’s memory.

Mike is survived by sisters Debbie Furnari (Mario), Santa Clarita and Kelly Silva, Goleta and brother Christopher Wood (Heather Danely) of Santa Ynez. Also surviving are nieces Alexandra Rodriguez (Scott), Michelle Rifkin (Garrett), Chloe Wood and nephew Brody Wood. Great-nieces Autumn and Ella Rodriguez as well as several aunts, uncles and cousins survive. Inurnment will take place at the SB Cemetery at a future date.

HUGUNIN, John David, Sr. John David Hugunin, Sr., of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully the morning of September 24, 2021 at Cottage Hospital. He was 92. Mr. Hugunin was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1929 to Hiram Hugunin and his wife, Mary, and was raised there along with his sister Sylvia. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in psychology, he moved to Chicago and made a name for himself as an advertising copy writer. He later served as the founding president of The Bradford Exchange, which in time grew to be America’s largest collector’s plate company. Seeking to forge his own path, he founded his own company, Pemberton & Oakes, in 1976, and moved the company to Santa Barbara in 1979, where it thrived until he retired in the mid-1990s. More important than business, however, was John’s commitment to enjoying life, ZKHWKHU WUDYHOLQJ WKH ZRUOG ZLWK IULHQGV DQG IDPLO\ ÀVKLQJ LQ $ODVND DQG 0H[LFR or entertaining at home in Santa Barbara. He helped found a men’s group over 30 years ago that still meets to this day, and was known for inviting one and all into his home, often cooking elaborate meals such as paella and coq au vin. Perhaps his longest running pursuit was dining out locally—for many years, he ate out six nights D ZHHN DQG HYHQ LQ ODWHU OLIH KH ZDV D IUHTXHQW À[WXUH DW IDYRULWH UHVWDXUDQWV VXFK DV El Encanto and Stella Mare’s. Mr. Hugunin is survived by his sons, John and Greg, his grandchildren Nat and Sean, his nieces Margie, Jill, and Jan, and his favorite nephew, Jeff. The family extends special thanks to Nina Scarcello and Mary Orr for their loving care and support throughout John’s long and rewarding life.

CLARKE, Sarah “Sally” Hawley Moore (Clyne) September 24, 1945-October 6, 2021

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The Wood Family would like to thank the staff at Casa Colina, Apple Valley for their outstanding care and making Mike’s life meaningful as possible. Donations in his memory may be sent to Jodi House, 625 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA. 93101.

SUCHECKI, Theodore Joseph, Jr. Theodore Joseph Suchecki, Jr. passed away peacefully on November 1, 2021, following a courageous battle with cancer. Known to friends and family as Ted, he was born on April 6, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts to Theodore and Cecilia Suchecki. He graduated from Stonehill College with an electrical engineering degree in 1964. 7HG VWDUWHG D VXFFHVVIXO FDUHHU DV D FRPPLVVLRQHG RIÀFHU in the U.S Air Force. It was during his assignment as a Titan II Missile Combat Crew Commander at Little Rock AFB that he met and married the love of his life, schoolteacher Ann Rutledge. During their 54-year marriage, they were blessed with three children, David, Sonja, and Christopher. The family traveled extensively throughout the U.S as Ted’s career progressed, and he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel prior to his retirement in 1985. During his AF career, Ted received four Meritorious Service Medals and an AF Commendation Medal as well as several other service awards. Following retirement, the family returned to Lompoc and Ted started a civilian career with Federal Electric Corporation (a division of ITT Corporation) as a member of the Mission Control Department planning and providing Western Range support for missile and space vehicle launch operations. When he retired from ITT after 20 years of service, Ted was the supervisor of the Range Operations Scheduling and Data Production departments. Many people will remember Ted as an active member of the Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church and a man whose greatest loves were his family and country. Additionally, he was a Lompoc Museum Trustee, Vandenberg Village Association Treasurer, and Mission Gold Trustee. Ted is survived by his wife Ann, son Christopher, daughter Sonja and 4 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son, David. Funeral arrangements are being provided by Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. Visitation at the mortuary will be Sunday, November 7, 2021, from 2:00 PM-5:00 PM. A funeral mass will be held at the Queen of Angels Catholic Church Monday, November 8, 2021, at 10:00 AM. Followed by a burial with full military honors at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery.

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INLAND

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INLAND

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70 48

68 51

75 48

83 52

65 45

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COASTAL

Pismo Beach 69/46

COASTAL

Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 60/45

Guadalupe 69/44

Santa Maria 68/42

Vandenberg 66/46

New Cuyama 57/35 Ventucopa 57/35

Los Alamos 70/40

Buellton 70/39

Solvang 71/39

Gaviota 66/49

SANTA BARBARA 65/45 Goleta 65/46

Carpinteria 63/49 Ventura 63/51

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

Source: airnow.gov Unhealthy for SG Very Unhealthy Unhealthy Not Available

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Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

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61/54 71/46 88 in 2006 37 in 1973

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0.00” 0.00” (0.21”) 1.19” (0.94”)

City Cuyama Goleta Lompoc Pismo Beach Santa Maria Santa Ynez Vandenberg Ventura

STATE CITIES Bakersfield Barstow Big Bear Bishop Catalina Concord Escondido Eureka Fresno Los Angeles Mammoth Lakes Modesto Monterey Napa Oakland Ojai Oxnard Palm Springs Pasadena Paso Robles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Monica Tahoe Valley

63/46/s 77/47/s 61/25/s 68/28/pc 63/53/pc 64/42/s 73/46/pc 58/44/pc 65/44/pc 70/52/pc 48/22/pc 62/39/pc 62/44/pc 65/38/s 64/44/s 70/47/s 63/50/pc 86/59/s 72/50/pc 67/36/pc 63/38/s 68/57/s 63/48/s 64/42/s 71/44/pc 63/51/pc 45/24/s

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POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind west 4-8 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet; southsouthwest swell 2-4 feet at 15 seconds. Visibility under a mile in areas of morning fog.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind west 4-8 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet; southsouthwest swell 2-4 feet at 15 seconds. Visibility under a mile in areas of morning fog.

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12:25 a.m. 10:19 a.m. 12:37 a.m. 11:09 a.m. 2:01 a.m. 12:10 p.m.

LAKE LEVELS

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Low

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2.3’ -0.9’ 2.8’ -0.7’ 3.1’ -0.4’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 65/50/pc 74/51/pc 60/29/pc 67/40/pc 62/51/pc 59/52/c 73/45/pc 55/51/r 64/53/pc 71/52/pc 51/39/pc 61/50/pc 64/53/pc 60/50/c 63/54/c 70/49/pc 64/53/pc 85/58/pc 71/52/pc 67/47/pc 57/50/c 69/55/pc 60/55/c 63/52/c 69/49/pc 64/53/pc 49/36/c

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Wind west 4-8 knots today. Waves 2-4 feet; southwest swell 3-6 feet at 10 seconds. Visibility under a mile in patchy morning fog.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 57/35/s 65/46/pc 68/41/pc 69/46/pc 68/42/pc 72/39/pc 66/46/pc 63/51/pc

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

72/45/s 56/44/s 65/49/s 75/59/s 59/33/pc 76/57/s 79/62/s 58/38/pc 60/46/s 66/44/s 85/60/pc 54/46/c 72/52/s 53/42/pc 50/45/c 69/46/s

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 93,289 acre-ft. Elevation 712.20 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 15.8 acre-ft. Inflow 7.9 acre-ft. State inflow 0.0 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. +0 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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‘More than just another quick morning walk’

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Participants of this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s stroll through Cabrillo Boulevard on Saturday.

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Continued from Page A1 have no personal connection to the disease but support the fight against it. This year’s event is supported by the 2021 Santa Barbara Walk to End Alzheimer’s Committee, a strong committee of local professionals and residents who have joined together in a collaborative effort to engage the Santa Barbara community for this important cause. The Committee is spearheaded by honorary chair Gerd Jordano and co-chairs Rhonda Henderson, Leigh Cashman and Katina Zaninovich. “Alzheimer’s disease is tragic and irreversible and has become a national crisis and global epidemic. Having witnessed the enormous emotional, medical and financial challenges it has created for friends and family caring for their loved ones with dementia has caused me to be a part of

finding a solution,” said Ms. Jordano. Ms. Jordano, Ms. Henderson, Ms. Cashman and Ms. Zaninovich are all members of the Alzeheimer’s association as well as the Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative. The Women’s Initiative is a subcommittee of the California Central Coast Chapter. The Women’s Initiative was founded by Ms. Jordano, who also MC’d Saturday’s walk. The Women’s Initiative also walked as a team in the event. It was the largest fundraising team bringing in over $30,000. “I think we all have that passion to find a cure when we are hit hard with the disease. The Walk is a great opportunity to keep everyone engaged in this fight; it doesn’t end because of other things going on and we are here to make a difference,” said Ms. Cashman. “Imagine what we could accomplish if we had tremendous community involvement in our Walk. We could be part of the solution for a horrible disease

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Dessiree Searl is a longtime participant in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s.

Walker Dessiree Searl The News-Press was able to interview Dessiree Searl who participated in the walk this morning for the 16th year. She says the fight against this disease is close to her heart because she has lost several family members to it, including her husband Keith Searl, who passed away in March 2010. Ms. Searl also lost her motherin-law and two sisters-in-law as well as her youngest son, Brian, who passed away in 2008 just two months shy of his 50th birthday. “It’s just such a sad disease and you really don’t want to have to see anyone else go through that or have to see their families go through that,” Ms. Searl told the News-Press. Ms. Searl first started walking because her support group introduced her to Jackie Marston, who at the time ran

Villa Alamar Memory Care in Santa Barbara, the same facility where Ms. Searl’s husband was cared for until he passed. Ms. Searl first started walking in 2005 with the Alamar Angel’s team. This team disbanded after a few years and Ms. Searl walked alone or with the support of family and friends. Ms. Searl eventually started the Cambridge Driver’s team. Ms. Searl walked alone this year at Chase Palm Park, but the Cambridge team walked at Lake Los Carneros. “There has been a good turnout every year. Sack lunches have been provided for participants after the walk in a pre-Covid world as well as more interaction before the walk, including booths for the sponsors of the walk. The Walk has had great venues in past years, mostly at the beach or fairgrounds. The walk is a nice walk, it’s very easy, about 3.1. miles,” said Ms. Searl. — Katherine Zehnder

A group of participants have their photo taken at the event.

that affects so many of our family and friends,” said Ms. Zaninovich. “This walk means more than just another quick morning walk along the beach. It’s about raising awareness. It gives me the opportunity to honor my grandmother who I lost to this disease and my grandfather who has been diagnosed with dementia. I encourage everyone to come out and feel the support and love for all who are affected by dementia. I’m in the fight to end Alzheimer’s, one walk at a time!” said Ms. Henderson. A recent report released by the California Department of Public Health shows that the number of people aged 55+ with Alzheimer’s disease in Santa Barbara County is expected to nearly double from 2019 to 2040 – up to a staggering 16,758 people. In California alone, there are more than 690,000 people living with the disease and 1.12 million family caregivers. Nationwide, more than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s

disease. Over 11 million family members and friends nationwide serve as caregivers to those living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Janelle Boesch, Communications Manager for the California Central Coast Chapter, joined the association partly for professional reasons, but she also has a personal connection to the disease in that her grandmother succumbed to it when she was in the 7th grade. “For me it’s a mixture of being connected to memories of grandma, and wanting to help individuals and families that are struggling with this disease,” Ms. Boesch told the Newspress. The Alzheimer’s Association surpassed their fundraising goal of $190,00 for today’s event bringing in over $200,000. The money raised during the walk goes to research and support of local families struggling with the disease. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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a thoroughfare more popular than ever due to the sorrowful state of State Street. Here’s a look at the businesses. • Bree’osh: Best baguette anywhere, hands down. Best croissants too. As authentically French as its owners — and worth every calorie. • Ca’Dario: Little wonder this cozy Italian ristorante, presided over by Chef Dario (who owns two other restaurants, one in downtown Santa Barbara, the other in Goleta) has become so popular so fast. The setting is sublime, food superb, service amazing. Say you request a share plate, a substitution, something prepared differently than how it appears on the menu, Done, done and done, no grimaces, all smiles, no extra charge. Happy, happy — led by Fernando, Marco, Dubra and Alex. This is the way the service industry used to be — and should be always. Scrumptious salads, preeminent pasta, spicy seafood — and the best pizza in town. Hands down, the finest dining experience in Montecito. • Caffe Luxxe: Nonpariel caffeine concoctions in Montecito (especially when Trevor is barista-ing) that may be savored among the colorful plants and flowers and gourds outside Vons on crisp autumn mornings. • Coast & Olive: After a mishap or two, the Copus family, owners of the Montecito Inn, got it right with what was once — for many years — a true locals’ watering hole and dining room. Under the vigilant eye of manager Don, a corps of hostesses, servers and bartenders (seek out Anthony or Dylan) ensure a joyous experience full of creative cocktails and culinary delights. Kushi oysters on the halfshell dressed in blood orange mignonette. Amazing. An Heirloom Caprese Salad with heirloom tomatoes, burrata mozzarella, pine nuts, basil and balsamic that melts in your mouth. Idaho trout with mashed potato and French beans (hold the salt). Almost as good as Steamers in McCall, Idaho — and that’s a major compliment. Finish with their Cookie Skillet (warm chocolate chip cookie with vanilla ice cream). Then you’re in heaven the rest of the evening. And all at an extremely reasonable price-point

— which was the old café’s claim to fame. • China Pavilion: Almost forgot this one. Then I almost left it out anyway. Ha! (Sorry, I’ve been fortunate enough to live in cities where they have real Chinese restaurants.) • The Honor Bar: Best burgers, finest fries — and the merriest margarita on this stretch. In keeping with the Hillstone Group’s high standards, big on quality-control and consistency at an affordable price-point. • Jeannines: The coffee is too strong for my taste; their food, sometimes decent, sometimes less so. • Los Arroyos: With Cava dearly departed, this cantina is the only Mexican restaurant on the stretch. Keep it simple, stick to basics — guacamole and chips, enchiladas, rice and beans, salsa — and you can’t go wrong. Order too fancy, and it may awaken you in the dead of night. • Lucky’s: Its owners took the Rolling Stones’ song “Paint It Black” too literally and, post-mudslide, painted the whole bar black rendering it so funereal you sit over a cocktail wondering when the casket will arrive. Bar flies at 5, see-and-be-seen crowd after 7. So long as the potato skins are delivered extra hot and extra crispy with extra cheese and extra bacon, it’s hard to go wrong, especially when the appetizer is followed by their signature abalone (one of two foods containing iodine, a natural guardian against COVID — he other is seaweed) and their iconic Salty Turtle Sundae. And, if you’re flush with cash, and it’s Monday, the world’s most expensive (and quite superb) chicken pot pie. • Mesa Burger: We miss Tutti’s. We even, to a lesser degree, miss Coffee Bean. And this joint, even though it exists, is also a miss. • Oliver’s: Best bartender in Montecito Billy Valdez shops at farmers market for his trimmings, mixes and potions. A glass of freshly-opened champagne (Veuve de Clicquot) for $20. Even better, a cocktail called The Razor’s Edge (Aperol, gin, angostura bitters & orange bitters, honey and syrup, lemon juice, served with a slice of orange and lemon twist over one lump of ice). Pure enlightenment. A pleasant mostly open-air setting and the only restaurant in town serving vegan fare — and their kitchen does it so well they’re capable of converting carnivores. ‘ Add this: the best bar — bar none — for watching the World Series or any other major sports event. • Renaud’s: Really? Renaud is reputed to

be a baker — and was the first to bring real Parisian buttery croissants to SB when he opened his first coffee shop and bakery at Loreto Plaza on upper State Street. So why would the restaurant serve a chicken and bacon sandwich on a stale (supposedly “soft” but actually “hard”) bun? Sadly, the rot does not end there as the sandwich interior matches the bun — a match made in hell, as if heated in a microwave. (It probably was). Whoever is working in their kitchen should be signed up for a series of cookery lessons; and the front-end staff should enroll in an etiquette school. “This bun is stale — it’s hard, not soft.” “That’s because it’s toasted.” “No, it isn’t toasted. Inedible, yes. Toasted, no.” No apology from the staff. Someone brings out an alternative bun wrapped in cellophane. It is not stale. And not exactly fresh, but better — and I’m on my own to re-sandwich the contents myself, the recreation of a sub-par, disintegrating sandwich, which remains mostly discarded on the plate. Hence, this is a good place to go if you want to lose weight. • Sakana: Don’t bother. Go to Arigata downtown, risk the homeless instead of Japanese roulette (as in, the possibility of food poisoning from raw fish). • Tre Lune: The server recommended a bottle of quite superb yet moderately-priced Italian red wine. And that’s good because there was plenty of time to drink it. Because 75 minutes elapsed between ordering meals and receiving them. They say the best things in life are worth waiting for. Not in this instance. My grandson’s meatballs were better suited for the golf course. And their “Grigliata Mista de Pesce” (a mixed grill of lobster tail, shrimps, scallops, calamari and swordfish) was the kind of dish that as a kid turned you off seafood till midage. It did not seem fresh. And the leftovers (there were plenty) were politely refused by my Chihuahua the next morning. On a positive note, the crusty thin breadsticks saved the night. Again, good for a weight loss program. 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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and other civil rights groups sued on behalf of noncitizens over the policy. In response to the lawsuit, the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering paying $450,000 per person to family members who were reportedly separated when they entered the U.S. illegally. The payments could total $1 million per family and $1 billion overall. Fox News’ Peter Doocey questioned President Biden about the policy on Wednesday. Mr. Biden responded that the reports were “garbage.” He said, “If you guys keep sending that garbage out? Yeah, but it’s not true. $450,000 per person, is that what you’re saying? That’s not going to happen.” He was corrected by the ACLU, which later Wednesday said President Biden “may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department as it carefully deliberated and considered

the crimes committed against thousands of families separated from their children as an intentional governmental policy.” ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said President Biden would be contradicting a campaign promise if he didn’t allow the payments. “But if he follows through on what he said, the president is abandoning a core campaign promise to do justice for the thousands of separated families,” Mr. Romero said in a statement. “We respectfully remind President Biden that he called these actions ‘criminal’ in a debate with then-President Trump and campaigned on remedying and rectifying the lawlessness of the Trump administration. We call on President Biden to right the wrongs of this national tragedy.” On Thursday, a White House spokesperson told reporters at a press briefing that the president was “perfectly comfortable” with American taxpayers funding cash payments to those entering the country illegally. Republicans say they aren’t having it. U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont.,

introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 to prevent such payments from happening. The amendment was supported by more than two dozen Senate Republicans. He also introduced the measure as a standalone bill. In the U.S. House, Rep. Tom McClintock, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, introduced the Illegal Immigration Payoff Prohibition Act to stop the process. The bill would block the U.S. attorney general from making any settlement payments to illegal immigrants resulting from violations of federal immigration laws. “Who says crime doesn’t pay? Under Biden it apparently pays very well indeed,” Rep. McClintock, a Republican, said in a statement. “Law-abiding, hardworking Americans have seen their purchasing power decimated by Biden’s economic policies while he has surrendered our southern border. Paying illegal immigrants $450,000 apiece as an apology for Trump’s decision

to enforce our immigration law adds insult to injury. Congress has the power of the purse, and that’s why we must act today to stop this outrageous plan in its tracks.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, cosponsored the bill along with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and 135 other congressional members. “With all the challenges Americans are facing every day — including an unprecedented border crisis — providing $450,000 per person settlement payments to illegal immigrants is pure insanity,” McCarthy said. “This is not only an insult to the American people, but also will worsen the border crisis and lead to a business boom for drug cartels and human traffickers, who are already exploiting Democrats’ disastrous border policies.” Rep. Jordan said, “Democrats lock down the economy, pay people not to work, raise your taxes and now want to give illegal immigrants $450,000 checks paid for by American taxpayers. Our bill would make sure the attorney general can’t unilaterally make that happen.”

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“I hope that visitors take away more of a personal connection with the museum when they see all these people behind the scenes,” said curator Linda Miller. She and exhibit designer Marian McKenzie worked on “What’s In Our Drawers” at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

‘What’s in Our Drawers’

Find out at Santa Barbara Museum of History’s new exhibit in Maximus Gallery

At left, an atlas moth from the museum’s Entomology Department is part of the exhibit. At right, the exhibit features the first display of this Chumash basket, which is believed to be 200 years old.

By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

on’t be fooled by the cheeky title of the new exhibit in the Maximus Gallery at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. “What’s in Our Drawers” belies its substance, which reveals what’s hidden in the museum’s Collections and Research Center, not only the kinds of objects preserved there

but the people who care for them. “I hope that visitors take away more of a personal connection with the museum when they see all these people behind the scenes,” said Linda Miller, gallery curator. She and Marian McKenzie, Maximus exhibit designer, coordinated with 14 current and emeritus staff to display a wide variety of specimens and artifacts based on the scientists’ own personal criteria. “I’ve never done a show featuring

curatorial staff on such a personal level. I’ve enjoyed collaborating with them,” said Ms. Miller, who normally selects items and writes exhibit text alone, using antique prints to highlight the parallel development of the sciences and science illustration. She developed the exhibit concept before the pandemic but had to shelve it due to the degree of in-person cooperation. Two years later, the unique show has come to fruition.

Each exhibit case contains items chosen by an expert, from marine snail shells studied by Dr. Henry W. Chaney, Howard/Berry Chair of Malacology, to bird study skins preserved by Dr. Krista Fahy, curator of Vertebrate Zoology. Some objects have a multilayered history, like the artifacts selected by Dr. John R. Johnson, curator of anthropology, which came to the Department of Anthropology during his 35 years on staff.

Some favorites — like the prehistoric mammal teeth chosen by Dr. Jonathan Hoffman, Dibblee Curator of Earth Science — are obscure, while others have been celebrated and their display eagerly anticipated, like the Chumash basket chosen by Dr. Jan Timbrook, curator emeritus of anthropology. The specimens and artifacts are accompanied by portrait photography showing staff among the collections and complemented

by antique prints on related subjects. Video interviews with the curators showcase their enthusiasm for their work. “I chose to display the very first specimen from one of our most prominent shell collectors in the collection, S. Stillman Berry. The first shell in his collection was one that both he and his father played with as babies in the 1800s and is noted as a point of inspiration Please see DRAWERS on B4

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here are a million ways to show the one you love just how much you care. These actions can make the difference between a mutually supportive and emotionally engaging relationship and a relationship that’s languishing. The more energy you put into loving, the more love you will get in return. It’s that simple. Here are five ways to keep the heart fires burning. 1. Figure out the new normal together. Right now, almost everything feels new and different. Even doing things again that we haven’t experienced in almost two years feels oddly unfamiliar. Experiencing this together bonds you. It is also well documented that couples who do new things together build more of the “cuddle hormone” oxytocin. This will help you navigate unfamiliar terrain better and make you a closer couple. 2. Become a better listener. I spent many years in graduate

school learning to be a better listener, and it has served me well in my personal as well as professional life. Learning to be a better listener may not come easily, but it’s worth the effort. One of the ways you can show someone you’re listening is by repeating in your own words what someone has just said before you respond with your own thoughts. Your partner will appreciate your efforts. 3. Support each other in this crisis. My wife and I both got vaccinated and received our booster shots, because doing this was good for us and for those around us. Limiting close contact, both socially and professionally, with other people who haven’t been vaccinated also makes us feel safer. And if I mention something that I need or want, my wife is only too happy to respond to my request, and I always try to do the

same. It’s not quite like Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner in “The Bodyguard,” but it is kind of romantic. 4. Be a little more flirtatious. A little romance never hurts. Be generous with compliments, communication and flowers or perfume (or cologne) that you both like. You can also make your bedroom a relaxing hideaway for two. You will be surprised at how well finding little things that remind your partner of how much you love them makes them want you more. 5. Create your new life together. Many things have changed and many people are living life differently, and we are no exception. We are getting ready to build a little guest house to use as a rental and are having fun playing with designs and getting ready for the actual building process. It’s a lot of work, but we have done it before and have

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track records, so we have a lot of ground to make up,” said Rechelle Ringer, DPHS Foundation president, in a news release. “We have worked really hard the past two years in preparation for this moment. “We had incredibly successful short-term fundraisers during the pandemic and have raised over $28,000 to date through our annual campaign this fall. The ROUND UP is our first large-scale outreach to our community at large, and we are excited to work together in such a fun way.” Local businesses can donate items for the auctions and/or become corporate sponsors by contacting Ms. Naretto at fundraising@dphsfoundation.org. email: mmcmahon@newspress. com

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for him becoming a shell collector.” said Vanessa Delnavaz, Invertebrate Zoology Collection manager. Brian Barbier, associate curator of anthropology, chose examples of basketry and basketry materials from Northern and Southern California “partly due to my love of California Indian basketry and to show how the whole process of craft making is something we study in anthropology. Representation of the materials ties the fancy finished product to the larger process of the immense skill and work that these talented weavers had. Few can look at the

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shoots and blades of grass and say, ‘Yeah, I could probably figure out how to turn those into such a well-crafted basket.’ “ As Ms. McKenzie noted, “They want everybody to be as excited about their specimens as they are. With the addition of that excitement — not to mention expertise — items in drawers transcend the status of mere objects.”

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Columnist Henry Schulte is concerned about the control he feels Gov. Gavin Newsom is exerting on Californians.

ince too many Californians can’t break away from the Church of Liberalism and Gov. Gavin Newsom was allowed to stay in office, Californians are being subjected to the rapid stockpiling of more liberal decrees. Feeling even more empowered now, the Democratic governor has signed nearly 800 new bills, with more coming. There’s no way we’ll ever know how much more control he’s inflicted on us until we bump up against one of these new laws. One of his new proclamations is to force businesses to create an aisle in toy stores dedicated to the less than 1%of the population who identify as transgender. Do we really need a law for that? Maybe I’m not being compassionate, but can’t you just pick a toy that you like and leave

it at that? What is the real point? Some of you may already know Who is he trying to make happy this, but I just learned that since other than himself and show his around 1986, Intermountain followers he’s such a sensitive, Power Plant near Salt Lake City wonderful guy? has been providing nearly Once again, all the power to the city of government is Los Angeles. interfering and Now don’t that beat all. suffocating private We’ve been forced to live enterprise as we watch under more regulations so many running for than probably the entire the border. Even the country combined, with Henry very green business more piling on, while coal Schulte California loves, Tesla, is powering L.A. from a has said enough. safe distance. In fairness, The author He also commanded they are “planning” in all our yard equipment lives in Solvang 2025 to convert the plant to go to battery to operate primarily operation. Personally, I love the on natural gas, but the twostuff. Used it for years. facedness never ends. But as Gov. Newsom flashes The cries of the California his Snidely Whiplash smile and elitist environmentalists make gloats and crows like a rooster demands on all of us to do our how great California is about part for the “climate change” making the air clean, he has no crisis, but don’t march on Utah. problem fouling the skies of Utah. Of course, if they were to do that,

they would have to put gas (that evil petrol) in their cars, because there aren’t enough electric charging stations (produced by coal power plants) along the way for those using battery operated vehicles. And don’t talk about the environmental impacts mining lithium creates in countries far away, they don’t concern us. In any case, it would take weeks with today’s electric cars because of all the necessary stops along the way charging up in people’s driveways. The other choice is flying and that’s an even worse option, unless you’re Leonardo DiCaprio, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden (who flew with half of Washington to Scotland) and all the other world “leaders” and their massive entourages. Please see SCHULTE on C4

Summer promises and other lies

uring the re-election campaign of Bill Clinton in 1996, I recall speaking to an actress of some renown during a black-tie soirée. She was from Louisiana and was about to cast her vote for the president. “Why would you vote for someone who is such a liar?” I asked innocently. “Are you referring to that Monica Lewinski stuff?” she asked. “Well, yes, I am,” I answered. A soft smile crossed her face and she said, in the smoothest most inflected Southern accent I’ve ever heard, “Oh honey, those aren’t lies … They’re just summer promises.” Her comment was a revelation to me. As it turned out, of course, Mr. Clinton did manage to wiggle out of his episodic scandals and though he lost much of the male vote, the ladies stayed with him.

And, they’re still there. Mr. Bush was the man, after all, Bill Clinton was and remains who had called Reagan’s plans the Elvis Presley of politics. “voodoo economics” during the His come-hither bad-boy snarl 1980 campaign before he was with a lick of dangerous fun has called upon to be the nominee’s many women all-in with running mate. whatever he is up to. As president, he PURELY During the first election reneged on that vow, POLITICAL campaign for George almost nonchalantly, as Herbert Walker Bush if that was just a summer in 1988, it was a lie told promise too. Those six during the Republican words, spoken earnestly National Convention that four years previously cost that president his job not only cost him his refour years later. election but also brought “Read my lips; no Bill Clinton to the White new taxes,” Mr. Bush House. James Buckley proclaimed slowly In the case of the and distinctly from recently defeated the podium as he accepted the governor of Virginia — Clinton pal Republican nomination. Terry McAuliffe — it was the truth The crowd went wild in a rush that cost him his job, when he of ecstasy and a collective sigh of revealed how he really felt about relief. Their nominee really was a parents “interfering” in school Republican. board decisions. He was Ronald Reagan’s vice So when our current president, president, but many feared he Mr. Biden, says things such as “My wasn’t fully in line with President Build Back Better agenda costs Reagan’s policies. zero dollars… We talk about price

tags; it is zero price tag,” we are no longer dealing with summer promises or little white lies, we’re talking about propaganda of major proportions. Who could believe such stuff? Well, the true believers, I guess, but otherwise intelligent people look the other way as our staggeringly incompetent (and I mean that literally) president spews this nonsense. That a politician can say such absurdities with a straight face is beyond baffling; it’s astonishing. Yet, it happens all the time. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s famous entreaty to her Democratic majority that they must pass the 2,700-page Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) “in order to find out what’s in it,” is also not an anomaly. Multithousand-page bills regularly stream across representatives’ desks, and they duly sign on to them, not knowing what’s inside, only that their managers insist they add their signature to the bill.

And they do. At least most of them do. Most of the time. What is an anomaly, is when someone doesn’t do the bidding of party leaders, such as — in this case, of the U.S. Senate leadership — West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, who have balked at signing on to the latest multi-thousand-page multi-trillion-dollar boondoggle. If you are one of those who find themselves believing claims, promises, lies and other things by your favorite elected government official, let’s take a walk down memory lane to find other times, other bills, other promises that have been made and broken. FEDERAL INCOME TAXES The 16th Amendment, for example, was passed in 1909 and ratified in 1913. It stated simply that “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on Please see BUCKLEY on C4

resident Joe Biden’s recent European trip raised many issues, including (with apologies to Shakespeare) “To mask, or not to mask, that is the question” and to further abuse “Hamlet”: “Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the risks of agreeing to shake hands or opposing them.” Consider the person who receives world class medical advice, the U.S. president, for guidance on best practices. President Biden began his European trip descending the stairs from the Air Force One wearing a mask walking next to the first lady Jill Biden, who was mask-less. Does this establish a rule of a husband should wear a mask but a wife should not? Does no one else being near them mean that this rule also applies whenever they are alone? When meeting the mask-less politician at the bottom of the stairs, the president removed his mask. Is there a special exemption for politicians? Foreign politicians? When the other person is mask-less? The president was maskless when meeting the maskless pope. Does this imply that religious leaders are exempt from COVID? Or that the pope had been vaccinated and vaccinated people do not need masks? Their reaching out their right hands for a handshake raises the question of the appropriateness of this type of greeting. What about handshakes? There is a theory that this type of greeting originated centuries ago as a nonthreatening way to greet people. You see, most people are right-handed, which meant they used that hand to swing their weapons, be it swords or knives, so extending an open right hand and trusting another person to do the same was a sign of peace. Both parties furthered that offer by permitting the other one to hold their hand which, in effect, disabled it from delivering a blow. This action of agreeing has been extended into other circumstances, such as when parties “shake” as a form of indicating agreement. Then came COVID and all its uncertainties and fears. Suddenly the country followed the expert on COVID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, when he said handshakes and even contact with inanimate objects could spread it. Immediately the centuries-old tradition of handshakes was stopped as many of us also became wary of anything we touched. Then it was “discovered” that it was not spread by touching inanimate objects, before learning Dr. Fauci had been opposed to handshakes long before COVID. Of course, during this time, we were told that it could be spread by inhaling someone else’s breath, so we should wear masks. Then we learned that people more than six feet away were not a risk, before learning that the type of masks we were using might not be effective, before learning that masks were not needed outside. While these “discoveries” were summarized in a few words they do not capture all the inconveniences, and accusations for the noncompliers, during the months it Please see ZEPKE on C4

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he Megalodon was the largest shark in the world. It was between 15 and 18 meters in length. Fifteen meters is over 49 feet. It’s teeth were far larger than those of a Great White. Thankfully, for other life forms and perhaps humans as well, it is extinct. A mega shark in the form of one oversized hideous building may soon be making an appearance at UCSB. Charles Munger is financing a Munger Megalodon in the form of a UCSB dormitory. This massive 1.68 million square foot dormitory will house 4,500 students in a single 11-story building. Each floor of this prison complex will house 512 students. The living units are located on the interior of the building. The students will be forced to live in windowless rooms requiring artificial air and light. That’s why you came to Santa Barbara, right? Modern building codes don’t normally allow this type of inhuman construction, but the developer may get around this by exploiting a loophole that allows the UC Board of Regents to decide. Architect Dennis McFadden states that it would be similar to, “living in a janitor’s closet buried in the center of an IKEA warehouse.” I don’t know about you but I suffer from claustrophobia. Being locked in a windowless room would drive me crazy. If they decide to build this monstrosity then they had better include a room on each floor offering psychiatric services and medication on request to residents. They should also consider offering PTSD therapy for a period of at least 10 years following graduation, provided they do graduate.

e used to have an aviary for finches outside our house. It was not very big, maybe 8 feet by 4 feet by 4 feet. It was a pitiful existence for them, it seemed to me. One day I gathered 10 or 20 little twigs and put them inside on the bottom of the cage. When I came back a day later, the sticks had been gathered and arranged in a nice little circle on the bottom of the aviary. The poor bird was trying to build a nest! She had only a few little twigs to do it, but that didn’t stop her from trying! She came up with a pitiful little nest, which was the best she could do. The reason I bring this up is that the birdcage seems very much like the human mind. A bird can build a nest, but only with the raw materials she has available. Likewise, the mind can think, but only with the raw materials it has available. As humans, we need to have coherence between all the things we experience, so we fit them into generalities or stories. We need to “make sense” about our experience. It seems that is mostly what the mind does: Create stories. But, like the bird nest, our stories depend on the raw materials we have available. Some stories we make up are woefully inadequate. This helps to explain the other political party. As children we are way too young to think about building nests, let alone to make up plausible stories about what we are doing here in the universe. We are still picking up little sticks, little experiences, one by one. Since we have limited experience, we have limited stories. So we adopt the stories of our parents, our family, our country, our religion, our political parties. It is wonderful and scary that we do that, but, like it or not, that’s what the brain does. Its job is to create stories that coherently link new experiences, to fit them together with the old experiences and old stories that are already there. To me this explains why a “conspiracy theory” works. We are looking for an answer to why things happen the way they do. We have to connect something new to other things we already know, or at least believe. If we don’t have enough raw materials inside our brain to come up with a new coherent story, we latch on to whatever stories we already have that best fit in the new experience. We say: “Yep, it must have been the Martians who invaded us and who did it. That story works out!” We don’t know that we lack enough twigs to be playing with a full nest. We don’t realize that what we have is just the pitiful beginnings of a nest. Finches, however, are not stupid. The mother bird didn’t say, “Why, that’s a fine little nest. I think I will just lay a couple of eggs in it.” She says, “That is one sad nest. It will never work.” A viable nest, by the way, needs 52 twigs. That’s also why a deck of cards has 52 cards. You need all of them to play with a full deck. If you have just puzzled over the last three sentences above, that is a good sign! It demonstrates your brain has good critical powers! The second major job a brain has, besides relating and assimilating new information, is also to be critical about it, to ask questions. When I was 10 or 11 years old, I heard some other boys

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The ReSource Center at the Tajiguas Landfill suffered some damage on Oct. 12, the second day of the Alisal Fire near the Gaviota Coast.

What burns hotter than a disco inferno?

ur local burned itself out despite the government fact 150 firefighters were on minions pretend the scene. they are the The awful truth is these world’s leaders batteries ignite via what is in showing the way to a fossil called a “thermal runaway” free/greenhouse gas free event. These type of fires existence. can’t be put out, they have Accordingly, they have to burn themselves out. The passed a plethora of firefighters, while staying regulations that would clear of the toxic smoke, were ostensibly lessen greenhouse there in an attempt to prevent gases over time, meanwhile the fire from spreading to driving up the cost of utilities other battery modules. and everything else. Of course, the Nevertheless, any emissions from forest gains they have made fires and lithium have gone up in smoke battery fires (which each and every time just forced GM to California experiences recall all Chevy yet another wildfire. Bolt vehicles) is only Our local example of part of the problem. this phenomenon? The The media never Andy Caldwell Alisal Fire. challenged the Did you know activists supporting that Santa Barbara County the Goleta battery storage supervisors saddled you facility as they claimed the with $250 million in debt battery facility would replace by constructing a facility to a natural gas peaker plant. convert some of your trash Hello? A peaker plant creates to energy (enough for 1-2,000 energy. homes) and gain a mere 10 A battery storage facility years’ worth of capacity at the simply stores energy created landfill? elsewhere. In this case, the Meanwhile, the Alisal fire goal is for the battery facility swept through the landfill to store energy from wind and burned up $20 millionand solar projects. plus worth of equipment and Such storage is needed infrastructure, including the because otherwise wind and piping that collects methane solar are virtually useless gas emitted from the landfill. because they only produce As a result, the county had intermittent energy, usually to truck all the trash and at the wrong time of day! recyclables to Ventura until Speaking of wind, the operations could resume. Lompoc wind energy project, Sometimes, it just doesn’t which cost $150 million pay to be green! and gobbles up some 3,000 Accordingly, I queried the acres, will ostensibly power county to determine how some 43,000 homes for some many trucks a day made 15 years or so, until the the trip down Highway 101 mechanical parts, subsidies, (which is limited at times due mandates and tax credits to construction) to Ventura expire! and how much methane gas The three projects escaped? Funny, the county highlighted here will cost wouldn’t give me the numbers rate payers upward of $500 despite two inquiries! This, million, serving a measly after forcing ExxonMobil to 57,000 homes for a mere 10-15 do an EIR to flush out all the years’ worth of green energy details on their emergency virtue signaling. trucking application. I Alternatively, Diablo guess the quest for details Nuclear Power Plant, which depends on who is having the generates no ghg emissions, emergency? originally cost less than these Unfortunately, that is only three projects combined, and half the story. it has powered upward of 1.7 Goleta has approved million homes non-stop since a $60 million battery 1985 without mishap. storage project that uses Furthermore, Diablo could Tesla Megapack batteries easily outlast these other warrantied to last a mere projects while producing 15 years. The system is 24/7/365 energy for another 20 ostensibly designed to power years, and it is paid for! some 13,000 homes. Unfortunately, California Their story? These lithium would rather burn than turn. battery packs will only ignite a fire once every ten Andy Caldwell is the COLAB thousand years! executive director and host of Yet, just three months prior “The Andy Caldwell Show,” to approval, a Tesla Megapack airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on in Australia ignited, and it KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press took four days before the fire radio station.

here is the compassion and understanding for our neighbors who will be terminated because of vaccine mandates? I remember when these same neighbors went to work anxious and nervous not knowing if they would contract the virus just last year. Nobody even knew what coronavirus was, nor did they understand what chances they were taking, but they went to work anyway. Where is the compassion and understanding for our neighbors working that could have been sick and recovered? Where is the compassion and understanding that they contracted coronavirus and are now immune? When we needed these anxious and nervous neighbors, they were there for us. Where is your compassion and understanding now when they will lose their jobs? Michael C. Schaumburg Santa Barbara

Responding to James Buckley Re: James Buckley’s response to my letter (Voices, Oct. 31).

r. Buckley is so predictable. There was no doubt he would bring up Sen. Robert Byrd’s membership in the Ku Klux Klan (in the 1940s). Although Sen. Byrd of West Virginia was a Democrat, my letter specifically refers to “today’s” Democratic Party as having no connection to the Klan itself. On the other hand, real estate developer Donald Trump would not rent to blacks. He was sued and settled out of court. He has referred to the continent of Africa as a collection of “s--hole countries.” He refused to accept the legitimacy of our first black president. Donald Trump is a racist. This does not make everyone in the GOP racist. Regarding the seismic political shift that occurred in reaction to the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Most voters in Southern states abandoned the Democratic Party soon after this transformative law was passed and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the presidential election of that year, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater carried only Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and his home state of Arizona. The GOP’s euphemistically labeled “Southern Strategy”, pandering to racist voters in the Old Confederacy, was then conceived and has flourished ever since. Yet, Mr. Buckley asserts, “Oh, and Republicans still revere the memory of former President Abraham Lincoln.” Good one! In recent decades, the GOP has used the filibuster, almost exclusively, to block civil rights and voting rights legislation. This is their faux tribute to Lincoln, and it can hardly be called reverent. Mr. Buckley complains about “mass mail-in balloting (as if more voters exercising their franchise is a bad thing), unsupervised drop boxes (allegedly stuffed with fraudulent ballots), and unrestrained ballot harvesting.” He refers to “an invitation” to fraud. This is quite different from

actual evidence of fraud. If he had any such evidence, why didn’t he bring it to court? He could have formed the ultimate legal “Dream Team” with Rudy Giuliani and added yet another loss to loser Donald Trump’s column. What this has to do with “chaos on our southern border” is a mystery. Apparently, for some, the use of this phrase is obligatory even when irrelevant. As to Mr. Buckley’s claim that his arguments are not frivolous and without merit, the decisions in more than 60 court cases and the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court would not even hear those arguments, indicate otherwise. Robert Baruch Yeosu, South Korea (formerly of Goleta)

America’s embarrassing moment

arly in the pandemic, health authorities pointedly told Americans “Don’t wear masks.” Some even said, “Masks won’t help.” The unstated reason why? Federal and state governments, corporate America, and the public health system were not prepared. No one had made and stored enough masks for an epidemic. The few available masks were now needed for health care workers and other frontline defenders. The authorities were concealing the truth, using a tactic called dissembling — neglecting to mention an important detail. In covering their large behinds, and in treating the American electorate like children who are not capable of understanding grown-up people talk, the nation’s elders sowed the seeds of the mask resistance that later took such a heavy death-toll on the country. This incident in our national history teaches us two things. First, our leaders and leading institutions are more concerned about their careers and their bank accounts than about the safety and health of Americans. If they were not, they would not feel the need to cover-up their mischief. Second, we need to promote public-spirited people to leadership positions in industry and government rather than private-spirited ones. Can America rise to the task? Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross, Utah Former Goleta resident

What about other COVID-19 factors?

pecial Report Part I of the News-Press article on COVID-19 (“Dealing with COVID,” Oct. 31) fails to mention vaccinated superspreaders (like my Moderna 22-year-old) who unintentionally and unknowingly infect others and themselves are diagnosed with serious cases of COVID-19. Why no mention of Ivermectin used to treat parasite infestations and the two Nobelwinning scientists who used this inexpensive drug in their treatment discoveries? Why hasn’t the FDA approved Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19? Could it be perhaps because of payoffs? A CDC Advisory Board Member reportedly quietly received

$437,250 from drug makers. Public Record Requests (plural) for payments to Anthony Fauci and other decision makers have gone unanswered resulting in lawsuits filed by Judicial Watch. Your article fails to make note of the many healthy unvaccinated elders, like me who live, travel and don’t catch COVID-19 even in the tight confines of the local Milpas laundromat on Saturday nights filled to capacity with male coughing migrant workers —-why is that? Every single local taxfunded and tax-exempt facility responsible for educating the public how to promote wellness and prevent illness — from UCSB, SBCC and SBUnified to Public Health, Cottage Hospital, and Neighborhood Clinics — has failed local residents. It’s easy and highly profitable to inject; time-consuming and costly to educate. The feds didn’t use our tax dollars to educate but rather to transform us into total submission as Gov. Gavin Newsom correctly stated March 2020 in his lockdown mandate. Apparently too few locals listened to Gov. Newsom’s speech or are submissive subjects: The end justifies the means. Denice Spangler Adams Gerontologist Montecito

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America’s Nutty Professor of Anti-White Rage

rittney Cooper — sorry, that’s Dr. Brittney Cooper — certainly takes the cake for the nation’s worst tenured radical (at least for this week, until the next academic nutjob erupts). Armed with a bachelor of arts in English and political science from Howard University and a doctorate in American studies from Emory University, the Rutgers women’s studies and Africana studies professor sure can holler. Dr. Cooper made headlines this week after her unrepentant hatred of white people went viral. Among the many dispassionate scholarly observations she shared with attendees of an online critical race theory conference were these: • “I think that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate.” • “Their thinking is so murky and spiritually bankrupt.” • “The thing I want to say to you is we got to take these motherf--ers out.” • “White people’s birth rates are going down ... because they literally cannot afford to put their

children, newer generations, Dr. Cooper was just having a into the middle class ... It’s super bad day or was caught off guard. perverse, and also they kind of Perhaps her true academic self is deserve it.” hidden in on-camera interviews The Root Institute (a confab and can be found in her published created to “advance the agenda work. of Black Americans” by editors of Her most recent book, The Root online magazine, whose “Eloquent Rage: A Black motto is “The Blacker the Feminist Discovers Content The Sweeter the Her Superpower,” was Truth”) hyped the rant named a “Best Book of session as a “healthy dose 2018” by the New York of reality.” Public Library and hailed The “institute” by, um, noted public effusively praised Dr. intellectual Joy Reid of Cooper’s “masterful and MSNBC as “a dissertation unabashed ability to on black women’s pain Michelle Malkin and possibility.” speak truth to power.” It’s amusing, of course, “Dissertation,” whoa! that she’s allowed to Must be some deepbreathe any word about the Great thinking, highbrow research Replacement, let alone gloat about there. I rushed to read the the demographic decline — while opening lines of Dr. Cooper’s left-wing character assassins “Eloquent Rage” and found ... at the Anti-Defamation League yet more profane spouting and and Georgetown University spewing: Bridge Initiative accuse me of “This is a book by a grown-a-“normalizing white supremacy” woman written for other grown-a-or trafficking in “conspiracy women. This is a book for women theories” for decrying the very who expect to be taken seriously same phenomenon. and for men who take grown But that is how the social justice women seriously. This is a book cookie crumbles. for women who know s--- is f-In the interest of bending over -ed up. ... What I have is anger. backward to be fair, let’s pretend Rage, actually. ... Owning anger is

a dangerous thing if you’re a fat Black girl like me.” I then wandered on over to Dr. Cooper’s collection of published academic writings on Google Scholar and sifted through titles such as “SlutWalks v. Ho Strolls,” “Disrespectability Politics: On JayZ’s B----, Beyonce’s ‘Fly’A--, and Black Girl Blue,” and “Feminism for Bada--es” in elite journals such as the Crunk Feminist Collective and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Dr. Cooper touts her rigorously researched work on “representations of Black women in popular culture, including a piece on the representation of the ‘baby mama’ figure in Hip Hop music and film; the feminist implications of Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl mishap; and the importance of Michelle Obama in the tradition of Black female leadership.” She and two other black feminist loudmouth professors also joined to produce “Feminist AF (that’s an offensive slang term): A Guide to Crushing Girlhood” targeting “loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls ... queer girls, trans girls, and gender nonbinary young people” — published by the once-

esteemed book conglomerate W. W. Norton & Co. Wokeness has made a complete and irreversible joke of higher education. Yet, too many Boomers and their Gen-X progeny continue to push their college-age kids and grandkids into these cauldrons of insanity. “There are some solid schools left in the country,” they tell themselves. “The toxicity isn’t as prevalent in STEM fields,” they insist. “A B.A. degree is still worth it for my children,” they rationalize. “If we just wish raceconsciousness and racial realities away, America will be OK,” they fantasize. News flash: Anti-white, antimale and anti-American cancer in academia has reached Stage IV. What more evidence do you need to wake up and walk away. 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.

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How to to win elections

uesday night’s GOP electoral romp in Virginia, headlined by Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s victory over former governor and longtime Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe, ought to be a watershed moment for the trajectory of American conservative politics and the Republican Party. The sweep of the Old Dominion’s governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general positions, making for the first statewide GOP victories in the once-solidly red commonwealth since 2009, amounts to a repudiation of the decades of pablum dished out by Republicans’ well-paid, but myopic, K Street consultant class. That conventional wisdom, best encapsulated by the Republican National Committee’s infamous “autopsy” following Mitt Romney’s defeat to Barack Obama, held that the party’s electoral path forward was best realized by sticking to the dog-eared free-market playbook and avoiding the contentious “cultural” issues of immigration, identity politics and the like. That self-serving narrative — namely, the notion that “cultural” issues are political losers for the GOP — was always terrible electoral advice, but it did redound to the interest of the Republican Party’s more secular, socially liberal Acela corridor elite. Every well-coiffed “fiscally conservative but socially liberal” Republican consultant wished this to be true. But it is, and always has been, profoundly untrue. As Virginia proved this week, the clearest path forward for Republicans is not to shy away from cultural issues but to engage the culture and fight the culture war with the aim of victory. A recent Washington Post poll showed, in the run-up to the Virginia gubernatorial election, that voters’ No. 1 most important issue was not the economy, but education. And over the month from late September through late October, Virginia voters whose Please see HAMMER on C4

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e’re out of Afghanistan. Good. We should have gotten out before. Our involvement there was America’s longest war, longer than the Civil War, World War I and World War II combined. We accomplished little good and plenty of bad. Tens of thousands killed. A trillion dollars spent. Now the Taliban wear American uniforms and fly American planes. Hawks say, “If we just stayed a little longer ... “ It’s not true. Yes, there had been a drop in violence in Afghanistan. But that did not mean we were winning. The Taliban were just waiting because former President Donald Trump announced we were going to leave. Now what? Will we continue to try to police the world? Probably. Washington defines U.S. national interests so broadly, said the Cato Institute’s John Glaser, “that virtually no region of the world (is)

considered non vital.” Iran? This grandiosity started after We spend more on defense than WWII. the next 10 countries combined. “No longer would we canonize We can’t afford to keep doing that. George Washington’s warning We can’t afford to keep funding against entangling alliances,” defense contractors’ cost overruns. writes Mr. Glaser. “Or In my new video, Cato extol the counsel of defense analyst Eric John Quincy Adams that Gomez explains why America ‘goes not abroad, Congress never does in search of monsters to anything about that. destroy.’” “A lot of members of Now we repeatedly Congress don’t want it go abroad, searching for fixed,” Mr. Gomez said. monsters. Defense contractors John Stossel Many Americans cleverly produce weapons believe the military and in different states. our use of military force Lockheed Martin boasts shrank after World War II and that F-35 parts are made in 48 after the Soviet Union collapsed. states. But that’s not true either. “If you’re a member of “The United States has engaged Congress,” said Mr. Gomez, in more military interventions in “they’re spending that money in the past 30 years than it had in the your district ... You don’t want that preceding 190 years altogether,” taken away from you.” Mr. Glaser points out. An earlier draft of President We post soldiers all over the Dwight Eisenhower’s “militaryworld: 50,000 in Japan; 35,000 in industrial complex” speech Germany; 26,000 in South Korea. called it the “military-industrialWhy? Is it America’s job to protect congressional complex.” South Korea from North Korea? In Afghanistan, America spent Taiwan from China? Israel from $43 million to build a gas station.

Normal ones cost $500,000. Why? Some central planner decided this gas station should dispense natural gas, even though almost no cars can use it. At least in Afghanistan our government did try to limit American involvement. Instead of having U.S. soldiers fight ... forever, America would train and equip Afghans so they could defend themselves. But that didn’t work either. The U.S. spent $200 million trying to teach Afghan soldiers to read. Five years later, half still couldn’t read. The problem, said Mr. Gomez, is that American officials don’t “have any clear sense of where things are going to go, what our objective is.” “We have an objective,” I pushed back. “Make the world safe for democracy.” “In Afghanistan, we had objectives of making it safe for democracy,” said Gomez. “We had objectives of turning Iraq from Saddam Hussein into a democratic and rich society. The record has not been very good.” No.

Now the military budget exceeds $700 billion, and the Defense Department says it will spend more money fighting climate change because the “climate crisis” is an “existential” threat. Give me a break. Spending patterns are driven by inertia. Year after year, they give about the same share of money to the Army, Navy and Air Force, even though today’s threats from places like China mean the Navy and Air Force are much more important. Politicians and the Pentagon need to make some choices. What exactly is the military’s mission? If America hopes to be both safe and prosperous, the military should focus on defending America itself. 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.

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More than 400 private jets and fifty helicopters, spewing their poison, descended on Scotland at the U.N. Climate Change Summit where absolutely nothing was accomplished. Well, they kind of did, they’ve again proven they’re frauds, it’s just lip service, and you little people have to reduce your carbon footprints so we can continue to fly guilt-free. Then by all means, fly as much as you like, you’re trying to do your part to save the planet. Blah, blah, blah. Flying and driving are detestable choices to the privileged environmentalists yet they’re quiet when their friends do it and create more pollution in one flight than a half dozen people do in a year. So back to Utah. Those are the choices; unless you ride a horse or walk. In the meantime, that power plant will continue to burn that vile coal. I recently wrote about the vulnerability of the country; in California we’ve already had a little taste of just how delicate things are. When the going gets tough, the power is shut off. And suddenly the wind stops blowing and it’s nighttime, and there’s no storage for the millions of solar panels that become nothing

more than ugly little sentinels in the desert landscape. We have a governor who was given a golden pass to make things even worse in California, which is hard to believe that it can get worse. Oh, but it can, and it will with the help of the federal government. We’re already seeing gas over $5 a gallon and I’ve heard numbers up north of $7 and more. And here’s a twist, Texas, the state filled with drilling rigs, has cleaner air overall than California, and that evil dinosaur sludge in the oil state is a heck of lot cheaper. We are so heavily taxed, yet California is doing everything it can to do away with oil production and imposing thousands of laws and regulations on anyone and everything to rid the state of the mechanism that keeps us running and produces millions of dollars. All in the name of the climate “crisis.” But it’s just smoke and a joke. For those who thought keeping Gov. Newsom in office was a good plan, you’re going to pay for it in more ways than one. If there’s any gratification for those who voted Yes on the Recall, it’s that for those who did vote No, you get to suffer right along with the rest of us. Get out your wallet.

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Wearing masks have been a part of our fictional literature since at least 1919 ZEPKE

Continued from Page C1 took for each of these revelations. Were they preventable? The answer to this lies within Dr. Fauci, so we probably will never know since he has a “dog in that fight,” meaning conflicts starting with his funding “change of function” research at the Wuhan lab in China where COVID originated. Dr. Fauci’s recent denial under oath in the Senate was contradicted by his own memo written in January 2020. The essence of which was that he was using taxpayers’ money to create the taking of a virus from bats, from which humans have no natural immunity but which could not be spread to humans, and “changing its function” so it could be spread to humans. Since the World Health Organization supported the research, that organization also

helped misdirect the search for the causes. Shamefully, not only was Dr. Fauci not prosecuted for lying to Congress, but according to Sen. Dr. Paul Rand, the research continues in the U.S. This raises the question of Dr. Fauci’s involvement with the president’s unmasking polices when he is in Italy. President Biden traveled from Italy to Glasgow, Scotland, for a meeting of the U.N. Counsel on Climate Change. In Scotland, we were not able to see inside the 85-vehicle caravan of cars carrying the U.S. contingency so are unable to issue a status of masks. The mask-less president greeted other mask-less leaders while shaking hands. Is the rule that only handshaking in the U.S. is dangerous? A rule cannot be that masks are not needed in Scotland since he wore a mask when walking alone. The president did demonstrate that wearing a mask does not

prevent one from taking a nap during speeches. Wearing masks have been a part of our fictional literature since at least 1919 when the American pulp writer Johnston McCulley used the concept of a man emerging from hiding to protect the oppressed from an oppressive Spanish regime in Pueblo Los Angeles (1769-1821) to create the character Zorro. Unmasked, Zorro hid in “plainsight” as Don Diego de la Vega, who is described as “a coward and a ‘fop’.” FYI a “fop” is a “silly or a foolish person” (MerriamWebster). His wearing a mask became so important that his 1920 movie, “The Mask of Zorro,” can still be enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies. In a 1933 film, another hero wore a mask to conceal his identity and honor his fallen brother: The Lone Ranger, who stood for “That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.”

In 1939, yet another mask wearing hero appeared in comic books: Batman. Note even the fictional writers created masks that did not inhibit the ability of their characters to breath or eat, and each of these heroes would be harmed if they were “unmasked.” Each of these heroes could be harmed if unmasked despite their good deeds. Similar to today? The Lone Ranger stood for “That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.” Can we shake on the best practice being to unmask the truth? Brent E Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. Formerly he taught at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One Heart-Two Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law” and “Products and the Consumer” and “Law for Non-Lawyers.”

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Continued from Page C1 incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” At first. In 1913, one could exclude $3,000 or $4,000 as a personal exemption and pay 1% on all income up to $50,000. The rate went up incrementally to 7% for those earning more than $500,000. Then along came World War I and somebody had to pay for America’s involvement. There weren’t enough “rich” people to finance the war, so rates went up for everybody. the top rate climbed to 70%. Republican administrations after the war reduced the rates, but once the Depression fell into place, the “rich” would be required to pay “their fair share.” Unfortunately for the rich as well as the poor, the new “progressive” tax rates enacted during the Depression years stalled the economy, keeping the poor really poor and the middle class in a

state of near-poverty. (See “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes). The “rich” paid up to 91%. If you’ve been seduced into believing that the recently floated “Billionaire Tax” that would require about one thousand of the very wealthy to figure out how much they “earned” via phantom capital gains and to pay taxes on that is a good idea, please think again. The Alternative Minimum Tax was passed in 1969 in the aftermath of a barrage of publicity about 157 or so wealthy individuals who’d paid little to no taxes (using all the benefits the tax code allowed). Before the AMT was more or less swept away by President Trump, those 157 freeloaders singled out for punishment had turned into 10 million or so taxpayers who fell under the new requirements. No doubt, that “Billionaire Tax” would involve the middle class in short order. And, if you believe President Joe Biden’s claim that “Anyone making less than $400,000 would not pay a dime more in taxes” under his new tax proposals, you should probably make an appointment with a

psychiatrist. SOCIAL SECURITY President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress promised that the new Social Security plan they came up with would be completely “voluntary,” that not one person would be forced to submit the required 1% from their paychecks if they chose to opt out. In any case, it would never cost anyone more than $91 a year. Another promise was that the money collected by Social Security would be kept in a “trust fund,” and would be disbursed only to those who’d participated in the plan. The constitutionality of the Social Security Act was challenged and the Supreme Court decided in 1937 that even though it was presented as a “voluntary” donation, it was really a tax, and the government could spend the money collected any way it wanted. When immigrants who’d never paid into it were granted access to Social Security funds during the Carter years, Social Security

became just another federal welfare program. Another “promise” was that any payments from Social Security would never be taxed. That went out the window during the Reagan administration. Did anyone really believe that Americans would save an average of $2,500 a year if ObamaCare passed? Can you say, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?” All political promises are specious and are almost always made with ulterior motives, regardless of what party makes them. So, before backing another multi-trillion-dollar spending spree or multi-trillion-dollar “soak the rich” tax hike, I’d suggest following police Sgt. Phil Esterhaus’s advice to the men and women in uniform on TV’s “Hill Street Blues” after morning roll call. “Let’s be careful out there.” James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

No. 1 issue was education shifted a remarkable 42 points from Mr. McAuliffe to Mr. Youngkin. The reason is simple. In one of the more consequential gaffes in recent political history, Mr. McAuliffe said in a late September debate with Mr. Youngkin: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” The unmistakable background context was the controversy surrounding the proliferation of critical race theory in school curricula all across the country, and for which suburban Fairfax and Loudon Counties, Virginia had already emerged as a local battleground. The injection of CRT — and parents’ control over their children’s education, more generally — as the preeminent political issue in the Virginia elections sealed the deal, in retrospect, for Republicans. Mr. Youngkin and other victorious Republicans owe a huge debt of gratitude to Chris Rufo, the documentary filmmaker-turned-CRT archfoe who has emerged as one of the most effective conservative activists in America, shining a spotlight wherever he can on the galling, sordid racial indoctrination that has metastasized throughout America’s classrooms and boardrooms. The Youngkin campaign leaped headfirst into the CRT battle, confident that public opinion was on its side, and stood unapologetically with elementary school parents distraught over woke public school teachers abrogating to themselves the power to tell toddlers to hate themselves and hate their country, to boot. Virginia Republicans, in short, studiously did not avoid a bread-and-butter cultural issue — one that sits at the thorny intersection of families, public schools and race itself.

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chanting, “Down with Truman, we want Mac!” So I went around saying it too. I am not sure I even knew that Mac referred to Gen. MacArthur. When I asked somebody what the slogan meant, they told me that MacArthur wanted to bomb China in order to end the Korean War. I thought, “Wait a minute. That doesn’t seem like a very good idea to me!” So I stopped chanting the phrase. Truman ended up firing

Virginia Republicans decided to fight the culture war with the aim of securing victory for righteously indignant parents and defeating the enemy, woke public school bureaucracies and anti-white racial hucksters. In so doing, the GOP took back the commonwealth of Virginia, which Joe Biden had carried over Donald Trump by a doubledigit margin just one year prior, for the first time in 12 years. And this is not a purely education/CRT-related phenomenon. On any number of other core civilizational issues, such as those that affect foundational questions of humanity, sovereignty and citizenship, the path forward for Republicans is clear. The median American, even in light-blue Virginia, does not want gender ideology to toxify to the point where biological men compete with biological women in athletic competition, or where biological men can freely unzip and urinate in the women’s bathroom. The median American, and certainly the median swingstate suburbanite, does not want hundreds of thousands of dollars in de facto reparations doled out to immigrants illegally flooding our border. The median American adamantly opposes second-trimester, let alone thirdtrimester, abortion on demand. The K Street consultant class has been shattered. Indeed, the GOP’s obvious path forward is the precise opposite of what the 2012 Republican National Committee “autopsy” suggested: Craft an economic agenda that is less neoliberal and more familycentric, but double down and fight like there’s no tomorrow on the cultural front. Mr. Youngkin helps show the way. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

MacArthur. The less we ask ourselves questions and the more we resist questions from others, the less that real learning happens. If we don’t ask questions, our current belief system more and more takes over as the gatekeeper to what new facts and information are allowed in. The Republicans who read this are saying, “Why don’t the Democrats get this?” The Democrats are saying, “Why don’t the Republicans get this?” What I am saying is: “That’s my story for today. Cheep, cheep.”