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Poll: Americans more concerned about economy, government than COVID By CASEY HARPER THE CENTER SQUARE SENIOR REPORTER

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Shoppers browse the Holiday Museum Marketplace at the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History on Saturday.

Dannis Mattson sells wood carvings at the event.

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On Saturday, the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History hosted the Holiday Museum Marketplace from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., to provide holiday shoppers a unique shopping experience and an opportunity to find unique gifts for the holiday season. The marketplace featured more than sixty vendors and hosted about 500-700 guests during the event. The most popular items were Christmas products and gifts, especially of

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the handcrafted variety. Items crafted from silver to driftwood were among those that performed the best, as well as succulent dish gardens. “The event was a major success. This has been our most successful event since we reopened in June. We had a lot of first timers, since the town is full of visitors for Thanksgiving. We sold about three-quarters of the nativity sets, at least twenty out of the thirty nativity sets,” David Griggs told the News-Press. The nativity scenes were donated by Gina Zanelle, a Please see MUSEUM on A28

(The Center Square) — Americans are more concerned about the government than they are about COVID-19, a new poll indicates. The Gallup poll released last week found that 26% of Americans cite an economic issue as the country’s most important problem. The poll reports that 21% of Americans name “the government/poor leadership” as the nation’s top problem, while 13% say it is COVID-19. Meanwhile, concern about the economy is at the highest level since the pandemic began. Inflation and unemployment are leading causes for concern among Americans, the poll found. Inflation is at the top of 7% of Americans’ list while 5% of Americans feel the same about unemployment. “It has been more than 20 years (April 2001) since inflation was named as the most important problem by at least 7% of Americans,” Gallup said. “The last time mentions of inflation were significantly higher than now was in May 1985 when it registered 11%.” Gallup found that 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse, not better. “Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index, which measures Americans’ assessments of current U.S. economic conditions and whether the economy is getting better or worse, is -29 in November,” the group said. “The current reading is similar to October’s -25 score, as well as the -33 registered in April 2020, the worst so far during the pandemic. Economic confidence has improved at various points in the pandemic, but has not been able to sustain the improvement for long.” Those economic fears play into the larger political divide as Congress considers nearly $2 trillion in additional social spending. The plan passed the U.S. House along party lines last week and is now before the Senate, where Democrats cannot afford to lose a vote. One major hindrance to the Democratic plan has been inflation, cited by swing voter U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., as a key reason for his hesitancy to support the plan. It seems many Americans share that concern. A recently released Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 43% of Americans believe President Joe Biden’s bill will make inflation worse, despite the administration’s claims that it will actually improve inflation. Federal debt spending increases inflation because more money is printed to help offset the cost and pay debt obligations. Republicans have also pointed to inflation in their opposition to the Democrats’ plan. “Only Democrats would cheer the passage of a bill that saddles Americans with more debt, taxes, and inflation,” said U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. “They’re in for a rude awakening come 2022.”

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If I were dark-skinned, I’d be plenty mad at Dr. Anthony Fauci and his Fauci-ism disciples for not addressing the importance of Vitamin D and advocating it for extra protection. And I have to wonder if this is because Big Pharma does not benefit from the vitamin supplement industry — just like there’s no money in proving natural immunity, which should (according to numerous medical practitioners) preclude a segment of the public from vaccine mandates. Again, the wise words of a local healthcare provider who reads everything on the coronavirus: “Those that have previously contracted COVID (estimated to be approximately 120 million in the U.S.), as per basic rules of immunity, have a more robust and enduring natural immunity than those that are vaccinated.” The mainstream narrative likes to play up the casualties of COVID but virtually ignores collateral damage done to many by the vaccine itself. Maybe “ignore” is not the right word. “Censor” comes to mind, given the stance of social media giants Facebook, Instagram and YouTube in their efforts — egged on by the Biden administration — to eradicate from their platforms any suggestion that the vaccine can itself cause harm to some who take it and that natural immunity and/or therapeutics may be a better route. Or, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes in his new book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health”: “Most Americans are unaware of all this carnage because the mainstream and social media companies immediately scrub injuries reported by doctors, victims, and families. Media outlets like CNN and the New York Times ignore the tsunami of vaccine injuries and deaths while reflexively inflating those deaths they can blame on COVID.” As Mr. Kennedy likes to point out, if you criticize government policies you get removed from YouTube (and he suggests that Mr. Fauci and Mr. Gates be prosecuted, criminally, for profiting off the pandemic and gross negligence). Here is a New Rule of Medicine, according to Steve Kirsch, executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation: “You must not question the mainstream narrative. Nobody prominent who supports that vaccines are safe and effective shall agree to debate any prominent opponent of the narrative. Challengers of the narrative should be ignored, censored, intimidated or jailed, if necessary.” It’s as if we’re living in “The Twilight Zone” — or maybe even “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” — due to …

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Please ensure that your children understand that they DO NOT, when asked or pressured by school employees, we repeat, DO NOT have to fill out a COVID consent form and take a test. It is their right to say NO.

QUESTIONS People should read everything on the subject before offering their arms for first jabs or boosters — and endeavor to find answers to these questions: 1. Why are states with the highest vax rates, such as Vermont, seeing huge surges in COVID cases? 2. What is the true number of deaths-by-vaccine in the United States? (Some research suggests as many as 100,000.) 3. What is the true number of deaths-by-vaccine among recipients of Medicare?

(Whistleblower data shows 50,000 Medicare members died shortly after receiving the vaccine.) 4. Why are young women reporting menstrual changes after taking the vaccine? 5. Why have no fewer than 6,700 medical practitioners signed The Rome Declaration attesting that the handling of the pandemic amounts to crimes against humanity for denying the best medical treatment and continuing to advocate for harmful vaccines? 6. Why did Gov. Gavin Newsom disappear from view for two weeks and abruptly cancel his COP26 appearance in Scotland? (We have it on good authority that the guv suffered a neurologic injury, akin to Bell’s Palsy, after receiving his COVID vaccine booster.) 8. Are we being gamed and played (yet again)? Please see INVESTIGATOR on A6

EXCERPTS FROM ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.’S BOOK “Anthony Fauci’s unprecedented quarantine of the healthy would kill far more people than COVID, obliterate the global economy, plunge millions into poverty and bankruptcy, and grievously wound constitutional democracy globally,” Mr. Kennedy writes. “The lockdown disintegrated vital food chains, dramatically increased rates of child abuse, suicide, addiction, alcoholism, obesity, mental illness, as well as debilitating developmental delays, isolation, depression and severe educational deficits in young children.” (Earlier this month, a Santa Barbara grand jury found that the pandemic and ensuing lockdown took a toll, “academically and emotionally,” on local students.) “Some 93,000 Americans died of (drug) overdoses in 2020 — a 30 percent rise over 2019,” according to Mr. Kennedy. “The lockdowns put 58 million Americans out of work, permanently bankrupting small businesses. “Workers lost $3.7 trillion while billionaires gained $3.9 trillion. “Anthony Fauci, the J. Edgar Hoover of public health, led an effort to deliberately derail America’s access to drugs and medicines that might have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and dramatically shortened the pandemic. From the outset hydroxychloroquine and other therapeutics caused an existential threat to Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates’ $48 billion COVID vaccine project. “Six hundred children have already died from COVID vaccines as of September 2021. A recent Lancet study shows that a healthy child has zero risk for COVID, suggesting that most of these kids are dying unnecessarily. COVID19 vaccines have caused cardiac arrest, blindness and paralysis in American children.” Add this from the medical community’s highly-credentialed Dr. Peter McCullough: “Today we have 800 cases of young people developing myocarditis — inflammation of the heart.” The same is now being said of U.S. military pilots, at high risk, if vaccinated, as suffering myocarditis — a complication the CDC actually acknowledges of mRNA vaccines. (Myocarditis appears to win the prize for the most likely side effect. It is fatal in 56% of those who have it within five years.) Again, those who reveal these facts have been subjected to censorship and death threats. And this: We received a detailed report that a Santa Barbara Junior High School student was pressured by three staff members to take a random COVID test.

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There are a number of people in Santa Barbara who have suffered harmful and seriously debilitating side effects from taking one or another of the COVID vaccines. Once we began our inquiries, the floodgates opened, and here follows a smattering of local cases. (In the interest of personal medical privacy, we will not name those who have suffered; and to preclude retribution, which seems to be the norm these days for those who don’t buy into the vaccine group fantasy, we will not reveal the identities of our sources): Middle-aged male, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine in midMarch 2021: “Has been in constant pain ever since.” Middle-aged female: “Plummeted my immune system, got shingles and lost vision in my right eye.” Middle-aged female: After first Pfizer jab “both arms tingling to elbows, up to shoulders by midnight. By the next day, arms felt like weights, numbness and tingling. Day after that, numbness started up my legs from my feet, progressing to my thighs. Day after that, could barely walk, admitted to ICU.” Middle-aged female: Vaccinated in April. “Numbness, nausea and shakiness.” Diagnosed with Gullain-Barr Syndrome, a rare disorder whereby the body’s immune system attacks the nervous system. Headaches every

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And here’s the kicker: Since the health authorities don’t acknowledge anyone as officially vaccinated until two weeks after the second jab (sole jab for J & J), the onset of side effects that occur within that two-week period DON’T COUNT. In other words, their system for keeping score is rigged in favor of the mainstream narrative. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. connected the dots and points out in his book that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Big Pharma are financially entwined — a classic case of the fox looking after the chicken coop. And to cap it all, no one can litigate to get their medical bills paid because those manufacturing COVID vaccines have been given, by the government, total immunity from lawsuits. A new University of Oxford study has linked rare neurological side effects to the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines. A recent article in The Conejo Guardian featured Ventura County nurses blowing the whistle on COVID protocols. They cite a chilling rise in non-COVID ailments at hospitals. “Nobody is considering that these could be vaccine-related,” said a local ICU nurse. “Doctors are at a loss to explain this increase, including heart attacks in young people.” Said another nurse: “We’ve had more strokes than normal, pneumonia cases and a lot of auto-immune issues: rashes on the body, the body attacking the nervous system, weakening the muscles.” According to these nurses, the adverse reactions to the vaccines go unrecorded, leading one nurse to call their record keeping “voodoo statistics.” Another California nurse asks: “Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?” And even if we are to assume COVID vaccines do some good, a just-published New England Journal of Medicine study found that vaccine immunity from COVID lasts only two months.

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day. Needs wheelchair when leaving the house. Middle-aged female: “Inflammation and nerve pain.” Male, 72: Pfizer. “Racing heart, palpitations. Doctors don’t know how to diagnose it. I gasp for air and then my chest starts banging and it goes throughout my breathing. It’s scary. And my blood pressure rises to 220/150, a dangerous level, for about 20 minutes.” Female, 91: “Was pretty healthy, took the shots, then she died.” A source who has been collecting COVID vaccine casualty stories told The Investigator: “Just a few months ago, a woman who works for me lost her father to the J & J vaccine, and his girlfriend was grievously injured. There are other cases I know about, one involving a local man who suffered a stroke, and a local woman who developed an autoimmune disorder.” Another source: “A friend of ours had the vaccine and, after the second, he got COVID. He has asthma and had to go to the ER at Cottage because he couldn’t breathe. They put him on a ventilator (how have they not learned that kills people?), and he suffered a stroke. He is now at home but can barely walk and looks like he aged 20 years.” Another local: “I know three people that have died within 48 hours, 50 hours and 72 hours of taking the vaccine. I know a man in his 80s who died after the vaccine and then his son committed suicide directly after. My son-in-law wound up in hospital for 12 days after his second dose of Pfizer and nearly died. My father had a heart attack after his second Pfizer.” A 12th-grade student at one of Santa Barbara’s schools died suddenly. Had he recently taken the vaccine? Nobody’s talking. A number of other cases arrived via another source, who told The Investigator: — “I recently met a local emergency doctor who decided not to get the vaccine because of the injuries from the jab he witnesses in the hospital. — Cousin has double vision, mid 70s, now needs a cane to walk. — Cousin’s friend, late 60s, went to the hospital feeling she was going to have a heart attack. — Friend, extreme inflammation, unable to walk without staying on Prednisone. — Professional dancer, 27, myocardial infarction, heart failure, trouble breathing, unable to work. — Previous boss, late 60s, stroke, memory loss. — Friend, mid 40s, seizures. — A pregnant woman got the shot, delivered early, and baby was born with dangerously high blood pressure — Friend, mid-60s, symptoms of Parkinson’s tremors and needs to be helped upstairs, now uses cane to walk. “ And this: “After my first Moderna shot in late January I began to experience pain in my hands. I went to play golf and couldn’t hold on to my clubs. I didn’t connect the problem to the vaccine until after the second shot in February when the pain became unbearable in my upper extremities. “I obviously had a severe inflammatory response that continues until this day. After many visits to neurologists, a rheumatologist, hand surgeons, an orthopedist and several MRIs, not to mention the almost $15,000 spent on a doc in L.A. who injected platelets into my hand. It has been a nightmare and changed my daily life. I live alone, and it’s been difficult to do normal tasks that I used to do without thinking. At least I can walk and drive a car — unlike a friend of mine in Chicago (who took the vaccine) who has difficulty walking because of nerve problems in her legs and hips. “Almost every doctor (mostly neurologists) I’ve seen says they’re seeing many people with similar problems. I finally began a regimen of prednisone and hydroxychloroquine that has relieved the pain, and I can now sleep through the night.” Middle-aged woman: “I received my first Pfizer vaccine on April 23 in the afternoon. I felt fine when I received the vax, no problems, drove off. Within 12 hours, I was thrown out of my bed by my heart, which was beating so quickly that it took my breath away and, literally, I was thrown out of bed. I spoke with my doctor who told me to wait an additional two weeks. I adore my physician, but he does not know. No one knows what this vaccine can do.” A serious irony here: The same governmental health care institutions that labeled those who died from natural causes as “COVID deaths” as a means of jacking up their figures now label deaths-by-vaccine as “natural causes.”

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ull disclosure: I took the “Fauci-ouchies.” But not until the very day that the Pfizer vaccine got FDA approved. (Before that, Pfizer and the other COVID-19 vaccines were merely “experimental” — and all who took them were human lab rats.) I hadn’t planned to; I didn’t want to. But ultimately, my decision was based on convenience. I would have preferred to stick to my principles and oppose medical policies the government has no lawful business mandating in a free society. But I need to travel internationally and, without vaccination, the hurdles — such as 10-day quarantines — are not worth jumping. Do I feel better protected by the vaccine? I think I was just fine adhering to a regimen of Vitamins D & C, zinc, iodine (seaweed and abalone) and lavender products (COVID won’t cross a lavender threshold) in addition to good hygiene. Through 2020 and early 2021, I traveled (non-essentially, Gavin Newsom’s 120-mile travel restriction laughably ignored) to Oregon (where I mingled with protesters in Portland, seeing for myself what was really going down), Colorado (Crested Butte, where they’d suffered an outbreak brought in by skiers), Arizona and Montana (where life went on as usual, maskless, bless them, no greater number of COVID19 cases per capita than those states — such as California and New York — that implemented mask madness and draconian lockdowns that decimated their economies, bankrupted many mom-and-pop businesses and did untold damage to the educational needs of students). Flights and car rentals and sitting at bars, uh-huh. I believe I was healthier without the vaccine. Why? Four days after the first jab, I suffered the first common cold I’d had in 20 months. It was as if my immune system had been lowered — and maybe it was. Three months on, a symptom of that cold persists. Just as I believe in freedom of expression, I believe in freedom of choice, and so I am not antivax but anti-mandate. And I also believe in the proven effectiveness of several therapeutics used to treat COVID and how tragic it is that their success rates have been proactively suppressed and censored due to the vaccine propaganda push. A local health care provider and COVID scholar told The Investigator: “Forms of early treatment such as hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, budesonide, vitamin C, vitamin D, NAC, zinc and selenium are being used very successfully.” It is interesting to me that those working in the U.S. military, in government, at airlines, in schools, law enforcement and in healthcare (among many other occupations) are forced to take the vaccine or lose their jobs while no such demand is made of those who collect welfare. Really simple: You want your welfare check or food stamps? Proof of vaccination, please. The double standard and hypocrisy in this regard is nothing less than appalling. And the cynic in me suggests that this stance is about not ruffling the feathers of Democratic voters (those on welfare know very well who butters their bread) while shaming those with conservative or libertarian views. The shame is on them. Another quite startling and very ironic truth: The segments of society who most need the vaccine are those refusing it. The mainstream narrative fixates on the elderly, the obese and those with existing health issues, especially diabetes and asthma, as those who most need protection. What they won’t tell you, because it ventures into the arena of sensitivity and political correctness, is that darkerskinned people are four-to-five times more prone to cultivating COVID than lighter-skinned people. (If you don’t believe me, just click into the CDC’s ethnic breakdown — not anything you’ll ever see reported by most mainstream media.) Reason? One of the best defenses for blocking COVID is Vitamin D. Most people get Vitamin D from sunshine. But darker skins do not absorb Vitamin D from the sun, and people wearing skins of color should take Vitamin D supplements to protect themselves. And there’s no one to blame for such prejudice other than the universe. Even the critical race theory folks, who like to point out racial differences instead of promoting equal rights, have not made an issue of this.

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Solvang’s annual celebration of all things holiday, known as the Solvang Julefest, began Saturday and will run through January 1. “Solvang’s Julefest festivities are making a triumphant return this year, after last year’s highly modified version of the beloved annual event. We will still have some slight modifications in place this year to accommodate the ongoing pandemic, but we will also be introducing some new Julefest elements for the enjoyment of our locals and visitors. Solvang Julefest is an iconic holiday season ‘thing’ along California’s Central Coast. It shines a twinkly light on Solvang’s Danish heritage. We’re so excited to be able to bring it back this year, for everyone looking for a little bit of a European holiday in Southern California,” said Scott Shuemake, president of IDK Events, planners and organizers of Solvang Julefest 2021. Oprah Daily named the Solvang one of the “Most Magical Christmas Towns and Villages Across the World,” with the festival featuring multiple holiday happenings within walking distancel. The Solvang Julefest Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony is scheduled to return on Friday at 5 p.m. at the Solvang Park, on the corner of Mission Drive and First Street. The tree lighting ceremony will kick off the Christmas season and is set to include live entertainment, caroling and ballerinas encircling the tree. In addition, the Solvang Julefest Parade is scheduled to return Saturday at 11 a.m. The village will once again host its annual Nisse Adventure, where participants join in a city-wide hunt for the mysterious Solvang Nisse (Christmas elves), who will hide themselves throughout downtown Solvang. Elf-trackers may visit www.NisseAdventure. com, where they will find animated videos containing clues to the various hiding spots which the Nisse frequents. Once guests find each Nisse they scan a QR code to continue along the adventure, earning a special prize at completion. Saturdays throughout the Julefest stretch, town-wide

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of History & Art. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will also be open on Dec. 11 and 18.

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• Solvang Nativity Pageant. The pageant, also known as the “Christmas Story,” comes to life with live music, actors, and animals.

• Julefest Parade. The 2021 Julefest Parade will boast a new route, similar to Solvang’s July Fourth Parade. The parade entrants, which number nearly 40 as of today, will line up at Lot 72, proceeding north on Alisal Road, turning left onto Copenhagen Drive, left/south on Second Street, with a final stroll down Oak Street as the participants head back to Lot 72. A majority of this year’s entrants are floats, marking a grand return of one of everyone’s favorite Julefest attractions. • Elverhoj Museum “Makers Market” at the Elverhoj Museum

Saturday, Dec. 11 at 5 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.

Saturdays, Dec. 11 and 18 • Solvang Food Tours (Holiday edition) led by the food and photo pros at Eat This, Shoot That!

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IBARRA, Jaime 05/30/61 – 11/05/21

On November 5th Jaime, a husband, father, son, brother, uncle and grandpa passed away after a courageous battle with cancer surrounded by family. Jaime was born in Santa Barbara, the second child of Teodocio & Evangelina Ibarra. He attended local schools and was in the class of 1980 at Santa Barbara High School. He worked at various jobs in the local electronics industry until his illness. He was a very gifted drummer who played with several local bands over the years including a band of music majors at UCSB while he was still in high school. He is preceded in death by his father Teodocio. He is survived by his beloved wife Betty, mother Evangelina, siblings Gabriel (Diana), Armando (Mary Ellen), Angelica (Guy), Arturo (Diana), Estela (Ed), Gilbert and Socorro (Matt), children Emily and Elliott, daughter-in-law Jere and granddaughter Evangelina. He is also survived by nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles and cousins too numerous to name. Services will be held Friday, December 3rd at St. Athanasius Orthodox Church, 300 Sumida Gardens Ln in Santa Barbara at 8:30 am. Graveside services will be at Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Dr in Santa Barbara at 10:00 am. ´7KHUHIRUH ZH DUH DOZD\V FRQÀGHQW NQRZLQJ ZKLOVW ZH DUH DW KRPH LQ WKH ERG\ ZH DUH DEVHQW IURP WKH /RUG IRU ZH ZDON E\ IDLWK QRW E\ VLJKW :H DUH FRQÀGHQW , VD\ DQG willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” II Cor. 5: 6-8 Jaime, your family loves you and will miss you until we meet again. Play beautiful music for our Lord.

WRIGHT, Billy Keith We’ve lost one of the good ones.

Billy Keith “BK” Wright, 73, passed away in Santa Barbara, California on October 5, 2021 following a VXUSULVLQJO\ TXLFN ÀJKW ZLWK OXQJ FDQFHU Born December 3, 1947 in Dalhart, Texas, Keith relocated with his family to Santa Barbara in 1956 where he attended Franklin Elementary School, Santa Barbara Junior High School and Santa Barbara High School (Once a Don, Always a Don). Growing up he spent time at the East Side Boys Club playing football when they wore old school leather helmets and was a member of the bygone Hammond’s Reef Surf Club. During the ‘60s BK and his high school buddies made a colorful trip hitch-hiking across the United States. Putting his Texas roots to use he was a Whip for Old Nevada hay rides in Las Vegas. He was always a dog lover. After working as a Cement Mason for 30 years Billy retired from the City of Santa Barbara in 2012.

HORNICK, Beverly Mae

4/26/36 – 11/14/21 Bev had so much spunk and sparkle -- she was fun and funny, full of energy, always in motion and also pretty gutsy. She loved to tell how she left college on a whim, hopping a train from Milwaukee to San Francisco in search of independence and adventure. In later years, she became a softer, quieter version of herself, always warm and loving. But the one thing those who knew her well ZLOO DOZD\V WKLQN RI ÀUVW LV KHU ODXJKWHU 6R PDQ\ WKLQJV struck her as hilarious, and she would giggle until happy tears streamed, bringing everyone along with her. It was infectious and irresistible! She grew up in Wisconsin, spending long afternoons beside her favorite aunt at the sewing machine. This sparked an interest in home economics and interior design which she pursued at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Stout State College Menominee earning her bachelor of science degree. At a Sigma Tau dance she met the man who would become her lifelong love. They were pinned, later married, and just celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary. Together they designed, built and decorated a small, modern home on a wooded ¼ acre with a bridge over a stream. She began her career as a fabric care consultant under the “stage” name Barbara Lee and later taught home living, clothing and sewing at the Cudahy Adult and Vocational School, Horace Mann Middle School and West Milwaukee High. After a long wait, she welcomed two baby girls. Never forgetting her West coast adventures, they jumped at an opportunity to relocate to Santa Barbara in 1973. Here VKH EHJDQ ZKDW ZRXOG EHFRPH D \HDU VWLQW WHDFKLQJ DGXOW HGXFDWLRQ ÀUVW LQWHULRU design and later sewing, with an emphasis on simplifying and modernizing techniques, eventually introducing students to the commercial serger. She brought a love of skiing from the Midwest and added tennis, golf and long walks to her list of favorite outdoor activities -- even boogie boarded a few times! She participated in gourmet dinner, bridge and mahjong groups. She joined the Assistance League. She travelled, eventually making it to 4 continents, but always insisted that “Santa Barbara is the most beautiful place in the world.” )DPLO\ DOZD\V FDPH ÀUVW 6KH DQG KHU KXVEDQG ZHUH LQVHSDUDEOH DQG VKH ORYHG KHU girls ferociously, making sure they always knew they were the center of her world. She created a beautiful home and was fastidious -- friends once threw her a tacky-themed party just to be ironic -- though she didn’t shy away getting her hands dirty in the garden RU JHWWLQJ RQ WKH ÁRRU WR WLFNOH DQG WHDVH KHU JUDQGNLGV 6KH SDLQVWDNLQJO\ UHFUHDWHG cherished holiday traditions. Sunday was family day with bike rides around Lake Los Carneros, picnics in the mountains or beachcombing at low tide, always accompanied by donuts cut in half so we could taste more than one. She loved her sweets! She was sweet. We cherish you Mom and miss you dearly. Bev was preceded in death by her parents, Herbert and Jeanette Retzlaff, and is survived by her husband Chuck, daughters Tracy Freeman (Paul) and Michele Carey (Joe) and four grandchildren: Cole, Parker, Kyle and Diana. Funeral Mass: Monday, 'HFHPEHU WK DP 6W %DUEDUD 3DULVK 2OG 0LVVLRQ ,Q OHX RI ÁRZHUV GRQDWLRQV can be made at sbhumane.org for the nine cats who delighted her over the years.

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HOFFMAN, Paulette Josephine

Billy Keith is survived by his wife, Rebecca, four children, Paul Zachary Wright (Maryann), Emily Meyers (Dwayne Douglas), Jetta Harris (Craig) and Aubrey Wright, three grandchildren, Nathaniel Jordan, Myles Jordan and Asher Harris, sister, Penny Heldt and many family and friends. He was preceded in death by his father, Billie Wright (1990), mother, Dimple Lee Wright (2013) and brother, Lanny Wright (1998).

Paulette was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 17, 1940, the second child of Aloysius and Josephine Tragarz. Just before starting second grade, her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she enrolled in St. Thomas School before changing to Immaculate Conception, which she attended through high school, graduating in 1958. At WKH DJH RI WHQ VKH ÀUVW VDZ KHU IXWXUH KXVEDQG :D\QH Hoffman, at a company picnic, and later, they met at a dancing school. They started dating when they were both in high school.

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ARBUCKLE, Edward Charlie October 28, 1928 — October 28, 2021

Ed’s life spanned exactly 93 years. He was born in Oak Creek, Colorado on October 28, 1928 and he died at home in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 28, 2021, after a short illness. The hospital where Ed was born was in Oak Creek but the family lived in nearby Phippsburg. Phippsburg was a small coal-mining town until rail was laid in the early 1900s from Denver, over the Continental Divide. From Phippsburg, the family moved when Ed was four to Denver where Ed spent a good part of his growing-up years. Ed attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and it was during this time that he met Glenora, his wife of 22 years and the mother of Steven (b. 1955, d. 2006), Nancy (b. 1956), Carolyn (b. 1957), and Donald (b. 1963). Glenora had graduated from Boulder and was headed out to California. Ed followed her there and they were married in a small chapel at Grace Episcopal Church (now Grace Cathedral) in San Francisco in (G ÀQLVKHG KLV XQGHUJUDGXDWH VWXGLHV DW WKH 8QLYHUVLW\ RI &DOLIRUQLD DW %HUNHOH\ earning a B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1951. He then joined General Electric’s training program and the couple lived in different cities across the U.S. for several years. During the Korean War, Ed served at the U.S. Army’s transportation Research and Development Command post at Fort Eustis, Virginia. Steve was born here in 1955. After discharge, Ed rejoined GE, this time at its Hanford Atomic Products Operation in Richland, Washington as an Industrial Engineer and Operations Research Analyst. Nancy and Carolyn were born in Richland. The family moved to Seattle in 1961 where Ed earned his MBA (1961) and his Ph.D. in Business Analysis (1963) from the University of Washington. Donald was born in Seattle. In 1963 the family moved from Seattle to Santa Barbara, California where GE’s “Think Tank,” TEMPO, was located. Ed started his long career at TEMPO at this time and the family moved into a new house in one of nearby Goleta’s burgeoning subdivisions.

Longtime Santa Barbara resident Paulette Josephine Hoffman, 80, passed away peacefully surrounded by family at Serenity House on November 12, 2021.

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In the following year, Ed married Ruth Marian Haneberg and in 1973 Ruth Ann, named for her two grandmothers, was born. Ed’s marriage to Marian ended in divorce in 1978. On January 3, 1981, in San Francisco, Ed married Judy Bellomy with whom he shared 40 years of happiness and loving support. After their marriage, Ed worked at GE departments in San Diego and Syracuse, ending his four decades of employment with the company (as engineer, systems analyst, and project manager) as a Military Systems Analyst and Proposal Engineer in GE’s Syracuse location in 1990. In 1994, Ed and Judy moved to Las Vegas to care for Judy’s aging mother and stepfather. Photography and dancing became Ed’s passions in his post-retirement years. He took photos everywhere he went, enlarging, framing, and displaying the best ones. Ed and -XG\ GDQFHG DW HYHU\ RSSRUWXQLW\ DQG ZHUH DOZD\V ÀUVW RQ WKH ÁRRU ZKHQ WKH EDQG started playing. Ed and Judy traveled extensively for decades. They made many trips centered around their interest in railroads. They were long-time members of the NRHS (National Railway Historical Society) and attended a number of their conventions. Ed also loved trolleys and streetcars. He and Judy joined the ERA (Electric Railroaders’ Association), and attended some of their conventions as well. Ed leaves behind his beloved and loving wife, Judy, his children Nancy (Cedric), Carolyn (Jim), Donald, and Ruth Ann, his daughter-in-law Zippy, and his stepson Gary (Betty). He was devoted to his grandchildren Louisa, Sam, Anna, Leilani, Chloe (Mathew), Chelsea, Charlotte, and Sophie, and was thrilled at the arrival of his greatgrandchild, Henry. A private family memorial service is scheduled for April 2022. Contributions in Ed’s memory may be made to the Nature Conservancy: https://www.nature.org/en-us/membership-and-giving/donate-to-our-mission/otherways-to-give/

DIMINISHED FREEDOM Just as the freedom we lost after 9/11 (security procedures at airports, Patriot Act, etc.) was never regained even though terrorism is no longer the threat it once was, the same will prove to be true about the new rules and regulations stemming from the COVID pandemic. Having recently returned from London, I have seen the future — and it reeks of all the social controls forecast by George Orwell in “1984” and Aldous Huxley in “Brave New World.” First off, COVID vaccines and boosters are here to stay, so long as this virus is not fully eradicated — and (like the flu) there’s no reason to believe that it will ever disappear completely. Documentary proof of having been vaccinated will remain as compulsory as a passport for international travel. Add COVID tests to the mix. Clinics for the latter have popped up everywhere — a new, highly organized industry that will never be disassembled. (Interestingly, when a document-checker at the Virgin LAX counter looked at my vaccination card, the data was not entered into any kind of database to confirm genuineness. Same for the return flight home. The Investigator has discovered that blank CDC’s COVID vaccination cards are obtainable on the black market in Santa Barbara for $250. Fake fill-ins are illegal, and we do not condone their use.) While in London, I had to take a lateral flow test two days after my arrival. (It had to be booked and paid for in advance of travel, proof of which was required at the airport as a condition of checking in for the outbound flight.) Oddly, this test goes unsupervised. Then, near the end of my stay, I had to submit to another COVID test (this one supervised) within 48-hours of my return flight home. Without this rigmarole, and a negative result, I would be barred entry to the plane. The other part of this: We are venturing full throttle into a cashless society in which only plastic cards (credit, charge or debit) will be accepted as payment. This has already happened to a large extent in the U.K. Many establishments, from coffee houses

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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At TEMPO, Ed worked on and oversaw many projects during his 17 years there, starting with an Anti-Submarine Warfare data analysis project spanning 6 years. He served as a Project Leader for UNIDO, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in 1968, stationed in Vienna and Belgrade. After that, his projects took KLP WR 7RN\R D PRGHOLQJ VWXG\ RI 7RN\R WUDIÀF 6DXGL $UDELD IHDVLELOLW\ VWXGLHV IRU D ÁDW JODVV SODQW DQG WKH KHDY\ HTXLSPHQW EXVLQHVV .RUHD HVWDEOLVKPHQW RI DQ industrial standards system and a DOE-sponsored study of energy use), Kuwait (an all-modes transportation feasibility study), and Egypt (glass plant production). Ed’s life was irrevocably changed when his wife, Glenora, died suddenly and unexpectedly of a cerebral hemorrhage in late 1971, leaving him with four children, ages, 16, 15, 14, and 8.

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and restaurants to many stores, will simply not accept cash. No card, no exchange for goods. All Black Taxis in London are now equipped with miniature gizmos for taking payment by card. This is not going away — and it will trend toward a complete disappearance of cash as currency. Do not, therefore, be surprised if, at some point not far into the future, the U.S. Treasury, Bank of England and all the other national banks that mint money (usually out of thin air) will set an arbitrary date after which paper money and coins will no longer be legal tender, along with a demand that all such cash be redeemed for plastic (or bank) credit or face this consequence: Whatever cash remains in anyone’s possession has no monetary value. This is part of an overall strategy meant to disrupt hoarders of cash (think drug cartels and counterfeiters) and prevent businesses from concealing cash transactions from the taxman. But the net result is this: full government oversight over precisely how much money anyone possesses “on account” at any given time. And it doesn’t end there. In advance of traveling to London you must file a Passenger Locator Form, which demands to know every address where you intend to be present overnight along with precise arrival and departure dates. In addition, you are compelled to provide all of your personal data, from birthdate and home address to email address, cell phone and passport number. My bet is such data demands will never be removed but will become the new normal for international travel. And this may eventually extend to domestic travel. Already chipped away at by social media, personal privacy from the prying eyes and ears of Big Brother will cease to exist. And the saddest part of all: If scientists invented a genuine vaccine to prevent cancer tomorrow, half the population would not take it, would not trust the government or Big Pharma (for good reason) because — like the boy who cried wolf — they’ve already told too many whopping big lies.

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 92,274 acre-ft. Elevation 711.66 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 6.7 acre-ft. Inflow 0.0 acre-ft. State inflow 37.1 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. +0 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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California Baptist defeats UCSB in women’s basketball By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

In its first of two games at the Saint Mary’s Thanksgiving Classic, the UCSB women’s basketball team fell to California Baptist on Friday by a final score of 68-56. The Gauchos are now 2-2 on the year, while CBU improves to 3-1. There were 10 ties and six lead changes in a back-and-forth first 13 minutes of the game. Junior point guard Johnni Gonzalez opened and ended the first quarter with

two of her four three-pointers, sending it into the second all knotted at 15-15. An 8-0 Lancer spurt would give them their first double-digit lead, 30-20, with 5:44 to go in the second. UCSB trailed by as many as 11 points in the opening half, before junior center Ila Lane led a 9-2 Gaucho run to cut the deficit to 38-34 heading into halftime. UCSB still trailed by 10 early in the fourth quarter. Although she struggled with her shot for most of the day, point guard Danae Miller put in a slick reverse layup in transition and got a jumper to

bounce in on the next possession to bring UCSB back within striking distance down 56-52 with 6:53 remaining. From there, the Gauchos went cold, making just 1-of-15 field goal attempts over the final six minutes as CBU ended the game on a 12-4 run. Lane recorded her second consecutive double-double, leading the Gauchos with 15 points and 10 rebounds on 6-of-13 (46.2%) from the field. Miller returned to the lineup following a one-game absence and had a strong

St. Louis gets $513M from NFL settlement By JOE MUELLER THE CENTER SQUARE REPORTER

(The Center Square) — On the night before Christmas, more than $513 million will appear in a joint account of the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority. They’re not sure how they will spend it, but it’s the result of four years of litigation against National Football League team owners and the actions of Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke. After multiple attempts to throw out the lawsuit, it was scheduled to start in a St. Louis courtroom on Jan. 10, 2022, just weeks away from the Super Bowl to be played in the $5 billion stadium Kroenke built in Los Angeles after he moved the Rams from St. Louis in 2016. As the Rams’ lease to play in its stadium in St. Louis was expiring, a group of city leaders in 2014 began spending about $18 million for plans to build a new stadium for about $1 billion. Its location would be less than a mile north of the existing stadium. But several media outlets reported Kroenke convinced the other NFL owners to approve the move of the team by criticizing St. Louis’ economy and loss of population. Throughout litigation, many depositions were recorded, motions made, and in October four contempt charges were filed against the NFL, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and New York Giants owner John Mara for not turning over financial documents. But the day before Thanksgiving, the NFL settled with St. Louis. It avoided the breach of contract trial by agreeing to pay $790 million to the three St. Louis entities. St. Louis law

firms Dowd Bennett LLP and Blitz Bardgett & Deutsch will receive 35% of the settlement – $276.5 million – plus additional costs. “This historic agreement closes a long chapter for our region, securing hundreds of millions of dollars for our communities while avoiding the uncertainty of the trial and appellate process,” St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said in a joint statement regarding the settlement. “The City, County, and STLRSA are still determining how settlement funds will be allocated. We will provide more updates as they become available.” The settlement is believed to be the first of its kind with a city that lost a professional sports franchise because it was moved to another market. The trial might have focused on whether the NFL followed its own relocation guidelines. The settlement calls for dismissal documents to be filed within seven days of receipt of the payment. Seven days after completing the dismissal documents, the settlement calls for all copies of confidential information and all notes to be destroyed. Because of the uncertainty and confidentiality of the litigation process, Mayor Jones didn’t have much information about any settlement when speaking at a media event in early November. “I think this might be an opportunity to get some low-hanging fruit as far as development, investing in our people and make investments that will be sustainable for many years to come,” Jones said. “The first rule of finance is never spend money that you don’t have. So I haven’t even thought about how much it is and where it’s going to go. So much is still up in the air. We’ll see what happens.” Joe Mueller covers Missouri for The Center Square.

day distributing the ball and hitting the glass, achieving season-bests in rebounds (8) and assists (5). However, her back-toback fourth quarter buckets were her only points of the day. Accounting for two-thirds of the Gauchos’ three-point makes was Gonzalez, who knocked down 4-of-9 (44.4%) from range for a season-high 12 points. Junior guard Alexis Tucker was a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line for 12 points. She is the only Gaucho to reach doublefigures three times so far this season.

UCSB kept CBU off the line, as the Lancers went just 5-of-9 (55.6%) on free throws. The Gauchos were an efficient 14for-17 (82.4%) from the charity stripe. The Gauchos shot a season-low 27.7 percent as a team, but outrebounded their opponent for the first time this season, taking a slight 42-41 edge on the glass. On a day where both teams shot under 27 percent from three, CBU took a huge advantage in points in the paint (48-22). email: sports@newspress.com

SBCC wraps up football season with stellar record By MICHAEL JORGENSON SBCC SPORTS WRITER

The Santa Barbara City College football team recently completed a 7-3 regular season, tied for its best record over the past 17 seasons. However, the Vaqueros aren’t done just yet. Santa Barbara will travel to face Palomar in the Chick-fil-A 2021 Winter Festi-Bowl on Dec. 4 at 3:00 p.m. at Escondido High School. This will be SBCC’s first bowl game since 2016, coming against a Palomar team that went 5-5 this year. The news followed the announcement that 14 Vaqueros earned American Pacific AllLeague selections, the most for the program in over eight years. Six different Vaqueros were unanimous All-APL First Team picks: Marcus Bellon (WR), Donavan Davis (OL), Jordan Tagaloa (DL), Tyler Haughney (ILB) and Kai Singleton (OLB). Marcus Bellon scored his teamleading 10 touchdowns in a variety of ways this year, including six on special teams. The wide receiver led the team in receptions (42), receiving yards (582) and receiving touchdowns (4), and even had an interception in a blowout win over LA Pierce. He was also the only SCFA returner to average over 20 yards per punt return (21.7). He was one of just three players with two kickoff return

scores and was the only return man with multiple punt return TDs (4). Offensive lineman Donavan Davis was a unanimous pick helping lead a rushing attack that finished second in the conference with 153.3 yards per game and 15 touchdowns. On the defensive side, three Vaqueros earned uananimous selections. Jordan Tagaloa clogged up the middle all season long, going for two sacks and two tackles for a loss on the defensive line. Inside linebacker Tyler Haughney recorded the third-most tackles (34) on the team while forcing two fumbles. Outside linebacker Kai Singleton was credited with 17 tackles, a tackle for a loss, a fumble forced and one recovered. Jorge Figueroa was very reliable at place kicker, converting 11-of15 field goal attempts, including a 46-yarder and two go-ahead fourth quarter field goals. He was also 41for-43 on extra points. The former Las Cruces High School player heads into the Winter Festi-Bowl one field goal shy of the program’s all-time single-season record. Runningback Jerry Martin has the most rushing yards (642) of any Vaquero since 2017. He rounds SBCC’s first team honorees after averaging 5.3 yards per carry and finding the end zone three times. SBCC also landed seven players on the APL Second Team: Alex

Johnson (QB), Mekhi Norfleet (RB), Josiah Roa (OL), Jamari Cannon (CB), Jack Kilpatrick (S), Nate Miskella (P) and Xavier Bonds (KR). Johnson took over at quarterback halfway through the regular season and showed a lot of growth over the final five games. The Bellevue, WA native threw for over 200 yards four times in five starts, totaling 12 touchdowns with just four interceptions. His efficient and steady play helped lead SBCC to a perfect November, a month in which he posted a 108 passer rating and had a 3-0 record as the starter. Runningback Mekhi Norfleet was the team’s second-leading rusher (350 yds) and led SBCC with five rushing scores. Cornerback Jamari Cannon contributed in a lot of ways, recording an interception, three blocks, and a punt return touchdown. Safety Jack Kilpatrick led the team in tackles (39), pass breakups (7) and forced fumbles (2). Punter Nate Miskella averaged 33.8 yards per punt, putting 32% of his punts inside the 20. Wide receiver Xavier Bonds earned second team recognition as a Kick Return Specialist, averaging 46.5 yards per kickoff return after taking two of four to the house. Michael Jorgenson works in communications/media relations at Santa Barbara City College. email: sports@newspress.com

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Robert Fowler designed local playgrounds such as this one at Guadalupe Court in Guadalupe, and they’re featured in Landscape Architect, a leading trade publication.

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Landscape Architect magazine features three local sites By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Jardin De Las Rojas site in Santa Barbara features a multi-function, almost modern art sculpture-like play structure with the backdrop of a 50-foot-long colorful mural created by local artists.

hree playgrounds in Santa Barbara County — Jardin de las Rosas in Santa Barbara, Villa la Esperanza in Goleta and Guadalupe Court in Guadalupe — were featured in a recent issue of Landscape Architect, a leading industry publication. All were developed by People’s Self-Help Housing and cited as examples of exceptional residential recreational spaces. PSHH serves low-income households, working families, seniors, veterans, those living with disabilities and the formerly homeless in Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties. The theme of the September edition was “Playgrounds,” and the colorful, two-page spread was written by long-time PSHH partner and landscape architect, Robert Andrew Fowler. The Jardin De Las Rojas site in Santa Barbara features a multi-function almost modern art sculpture-like play structure with the backdrop of a 50-foot-long colorful mural created by local artists, according to the article. The play structure colors were selected to be a dark plum so as not to compete with the mural. Since space was very limited, Mr. Fowler wanted the mural to “extend the perceived limits” of the play area and give the children on the playground the feel as if they could jump into the painting. The main design element for the play area at the Villa La Esperanza multi-family housing Please see PLAYGROUNDS on B4

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HOROSCOPE Horoscope.com Sunday, November 28, 2021 ARIES — Big ideas and opportunities to expand your mind are coming your way when Mercury enters Sagittarius on Wednesday, moving through your philosophy zone for the next two weeks. This is an ideal time to go back to school or take a trip to learn more about the world. TAURUS — Deep thoughts could consume your headspace for the next two weeks once Mercury enters Sagittarius on Wednesday, moving into your intimacy zone. Break out of your comfort zone a little by exploring a taboo subject that others may not want you to explore. Let go of old thought patterns and seek out growth through knowledge. GEMINI — If you’ve been fighting or having communication problems with someone, it’s best to resolve these issues starting on Wednesday when Mercury enters Sagittarius and then moves through your partnership zone for the next two weeks, especially if you’ve been feuding with someone over ideas and big questions. CANCER — If you’ve been fighting or having communication problems with someone, it’s best to resolve these issues starting on Wednesday when Mercury enters Sagittarius and then moves through your partnership zone for the next two weeks, especially if you’ve been feuding with someone over ideas and big questions. LEO — This week brings major creative energies into your life when Mercury enters Sagittarius on Wednesday, moving the planet of communication into your pleasure zone. Over the next two weeks, you’ll be able to express yourself with ease, especially when discussing important ideas or telling stories about your exciting adventures around the dinner table. VIRGO — The holiday season is here, Virgo, and you know what that means? Family time! And you’ll be getting plenty of that when Mercury enters Sagittarius on Wednesday, moving through your home zone for the next two weeks. While you could be doing a lot of traveling during the season, it might not all be smooth sailing. LIBRA — This week brings you the gift of gab because communication will be easy for you when Mercury enters Sagittarius on Wednesday. Mercury will be in your communication zone for the next two weeks, allowing you to speak your mind with ease. It’s a great time to expand your mind and perhaps take an online course in a subject that you’ve always been curious about. SCORPIO — Money is on your mind this week as you try to get your financial situation in order. Mercury leaves your sign on Wednesday, moving through Sagittarius and your value zone for the next two weeks. While you might be tempted to get a jump-start on holiday shopping (and buy yourself a few belated birthday gifts), keep your budget in mind and stick to it! SAGITTARIUS — This week brings an extra dose of confidence when Mercury enters your sign on Wednesday. Over the next two weeks, you’ll be able to express yourself and your ideas boldly and easily. Your curiosity will also be increased as you desire to know and understand everything and become fascinated by the world around you. CAPRICORN — After a very social month, you’re ready to take it easy and lay low for the next couple of weeks when Mercury enters Sagittarius on Wednesday, moving into your privacy zone. While you may not feel up to socializing, it’s a good time to explore your thoughts and feelings, especially about the past. To move forward, you’re going to have to heal your old wounds. AQUARIUS — Get your calendar out now because you’re going to be booked solid for the next two weeks once Mercury enters Sagittarius and your social zone on Wednesday. This is an ideal time to visit friends, go on dinner dates, have video chats, or just grab coffee with someone you haven’t seen in a while. PISCES — The year 2022 is almost here, Pisces, making it an excellent time to think about the future and especially about your career. On Wednesday, Mercury enters Sagittarius. It will be moving through your career zone for the next two weeks, encouraging you think about your own definition of success.

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adventures, and when she leaves the house, our little dog howls like a teenager who got dumped at the prom. Sometimes she even cries. She has a bed under my desk, but she’d rather wait by the front window, so she can see mommy come home. Then she does her happy dance. I’d spend every waking minute with my wife, but that isn’t possible or practical. When she’s gone, I do things that aren’t really couple orientated, such as writing. Sitting by the window waiting is not a good use of my time. The dog has other ideas. • Family cuddles are really the best. Every night, my wife, the dog, the cat and I go up to bed together. Sometimes the animals lead the way. They like their bedtime,

and everyone has their spot, so a group cuddle is not just possible but unavoidable. Those are some of the best moments of our lives. I’m usually the first one out of bed in the morning, and I can feel the joy the three of them get as they (very) slowly rise to greet the day. • Every room in the house is multipurpose. This includes the master bathroom, which the cat has pretty much taken over. She has her own alcove, which works great for all of us, but when she wants attention, she can be pretty demanding with a captive audience. In the past, when I lived alone, my moments of solitude were spent reading. Now the cat wants

to be petted, and she won’t take no for an answer. It’s both fun and funny. If I want a little peace, to relax without the kitty in my lap, I’ve learned to give her food just beforehand. It’s the only thing that will distract her. Our pets have given us more than I can express. Life is just better with our animals in it. I have outlived too many pets, and the loss is always a heartbreak. But I get to love them while they are here and will never forget what they’ve taught me. Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., is an award-winning therapist and humanitarian. He is also a columnist, the author of seven books and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com with nearly 27 million readers. Reach him at barton@bartongoldsmith.com. His column appears Sundays and Wednesdays in the News-Press.

The Alisal Ranch welcomes Nathan Turner By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

The Alisal Guest Ranch & Resort in Solvang welcomes Nathan Turner for a Holiday Workshop Dec. 3-5. Mr. Turner is a celebrated interior designer and the author of “I Love California.” The resort is hosting a multi-day “California Country” workshop on California inspired cooking and entertaining. It will feature holiday entertaining workshops, dinners and cocktails, all with a California country ranch-style vibe . Here’s the schedule.

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DEC. 4 • 7-10 a.m. Breakfast at your leisure in the Ranch Room. • 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Ride or hay wagon to the Adobe for Holiday cooking demo featuring tips on creating a stunning buffet, followed by lunch. The Alisal’s Adobe is known for bringing an authentic old West flair to this festive rusticstyle demonstration and lunch. • 2- 4 p.m.: Fireside wreath making and holiday table scaping in the gazebo by pool • 4- 6:00 p.m.: Free time  — 6:30 p.m.: Champagne bar and cocktails at Cottonwood Bar. • 7 p.m.: Dinner in the Cottonwood Room featuring Cowboy Santa and live Christmas music. For more information, go to alisal.com/ experiences/cacountryholiday.

boasts an elegant rustic style and features vintage artwork, decorative fixtures, and antiques curated by Turner. • 7:30 p.m.: Dinner in the Sycamore Room. Theme: Holiday glamour with a night of Winter White Décor. The elegant Sycamore Room is fashioned with high-beamed ceilings, majestic stone hearth and wood mantle, and expansive windows, and the resort says that makes it “perfect spot for a cozy ranch-style holiday dinner.” Mr. Turner will share his inspiration for the décor, along with tips for guests to recreate the setting in their own home. There will also be recipes. — 8:30 p.m.: Under the stars: an evening of S’mores and cozy holiday-themed after-dinner drinks

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was informed of the charges against him. In D.C., those held have not been informed although the FBI estimates that 400 of those arrested will only be charged with the misdemeanor of “trespassing” and perhaps “not leaving a federal building when ordered,” which both have maximum sentences less than the time they have already served. No one has been charged with the “insurrection” except by the mainstream media. “Trespass” is to “enter a person’s land or property without permission,” such as someone walking through your yard.” “Not leaving a government building when ordered” requires proof that the person was aware of the order. “Insurrection” is a “violent uprising against a government” which implies an

Chicago? In 1920, it became Lions Club International when organizers established the first club in Canada. Another one was created in 1927 in Mexico. During the 1925 international convention in Cedar Point, Ohio, Helen Keller charged Lions with becoming “Knights of the Blind in the crusade against darkness.” In 1930, Lion George Bonham painted a cane white with a red band to aid the visually impaired after he witnessed a blind man having trouble crossing the street. In 1935, a local Lions club donated a Talking Book machine to the Milwaukee Public Library, allowing the blind to hear books. In 1947, the Lions celebrated their 30th anniversary. By then, it had become the world’s largest service club organization, with 324,690 members in 19 nations. In 1956, the Detroit Lions Club gave 6-year-old Stevie Wonder a Christmas gift: a drum set. The Lions Club’s history goes on and beyond “Knights of the Blind.” One hundred and four years later with more than 1.4 million members, Lions are a global service network of volunteers who make a difference in their local communities. Lions Clubs are the world’s largest service club organization with more than 46,000 clubs in 209 countries. Lions clubs offer individuals the unique opportunity to express their altruism through kindhearted service. All around the world, communities benefit from the selfless service of Lions. More than 275 million people served in 2019-2020 around the world. “LIONS” stands for Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation’s Safety. It major service is centered around vision, hearing and the prevention of diabetes. The Carpinteria Lions Club was chartered in November 1927 and has been an integral part in so many things that make Carpinteria what it is today. Members funded the first ambulance for the city, planted all of the trees along Seventh Avenue and hosted the Mothers Day pancake breakfast. For 34-plus years, members sold their world-famous tritip sandwiches at the annual Carpinteria Avocado Festival. The club has never had a repeat president (not many service clubs can say that), and it has 70 active members. The Lions Club started primarily as a men’s-only service organization but welcomes women today. Within the last 10 years, the club has brought wives of Lions who passed into the club as full members. Carpinteria Lions is celebrating its 10th year of Festival of Trees Each year the club selects a local nonprofit or educationbased group to benefit from the monies the Lions raise from selling raffle $1 tickets.

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James Buckley says no one should wonder why so many continue to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

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ow that we know for sure what the “Russia Collusion” story was all about … Well, I should rephrase that. “We” always knew what it was: a fabricated crock of oppositional research, as did the leaders of the progressive “we.” However, the Democratic Party and its enablers continued to promote the salacious lies long after virtually everyone in government of both political parties knew the truth: It was the Hillary campaign that had not only invented the Russia Collusion charge, but had also bankrolled the purveyors of the Steele dossier. It should be clear to all but the densest human that former President Donald Trump had no connection with Russian President Vladimir Putin,l that there was no “collusion” between

the 2016 Trump for President even the slightest apology for campaign and anyone in Russia, spreading the defamatory lies for president or otherwise. so long. Certainly no Democrat We do know, however, that has come forward to say, “Oops. collusion took place Sorry.” PURELY between the 2016 Hillary But, this is par for the POLITICAL for president campaign course for politicians and Russian interlopers. such as Hillary Clinton, It was revealed more following the lead of than four years ago that former Nevada Sen. a company called Fusion Harry Reid, who rather GPS was paid with than apologize after Hillary campaign funds being called out for (a reported $10 million) falsely claiming on for the dirty dossier the Senate floor that James Buckley conjured by former Republican presidential Britishspy Christopher candidate Mitt Romney Steele, and that the had paid no taxes for a dossier contained a barroom’s decade, said: “Well, he didn’t win, worth of innuendo, rumor and did he?” bold-faced lies. No, Mr. Romney didn’t win. Federal prosecutor John Apparently, winning is Durham’s recent indictments everything to these types of spell out the plot quite clearly, corrupt lifetime politicians: yet no one other than The fairness, integrity, honesty or the Washington Post has offered Constitution have no standing.

And, let’s face it, all Sen. Romney would have had to do was release his taxes for the period referenced. But he didn’t. And he never defended himself against the ridiculous “files of women” meme thrown out by Democrats when he tried to explain that he had compiled a file of qualified women to consider for his cabinet and other high offices. Mitt Romney was a really bad, slow-moving and apologetic-toa-fault candidate who probably would have not only been a bad president but would also have likely destroyed the Republican Party for decades had he actually been elected. Mr. Trump, on the other hand, aggressively pushed back and derided the “Russia collusion” story every day, every chance he got, calling it, among other things, a hoax. Which it was, but, except

for Fox News and its reporters and on-air personalities, no other major media outlet defended the then president. Worse, because President Trump exposed the Russia collusion/Steele dossier gambit as the dirty political trick that it was, the Democratic Party impeached him for it! “Obstruction of justice” charges were leveled against the president for calling a hoax … a hoax, even though he turned over all the documents asked for and cooperated fully with the Mueller “investigation.” The New York Times and The Washington Post even won cumulative Pulitzer Prizes for faulty coverage of a fake issue. How these people can still call themselves “journalists” is baffling, but let’s examine what conspired during the four years Please see BUCKLEY on C4

Justice: Kenosha, Wisc. vs. Washington, D.C.

n Kenosha, Wisc., as the jury deliberated in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, hill staffer Billy Graham said, “We are waiting to see if riots break out because of media lies about a case from a riot that happened because of media lies.” To evaluate his comments, it is helpful to compare the Kenosha events with the Jan. 6 ones in Washington, D.C. In Kenosha on Aug. 20, 2020, the police protected themselves from a knife attack and shot and crippled Jacob Blake in selfdefense. In D.C., the mainstream media, except Fox, lied in claiming the police shot and killed an unarmed black man as the Democratic National Convention concluded without criticizing any of the rioting, looting and arson that had taken place in hundreds of Democratic-controlled cities. A question arises whether the

actions in Kenosha and D.C. were In Kenosha in 2020, Mayor protests? Riots? Looting” Arson? John Antaramian, a Democrat, “Protests” “are a statement or continued to order the police action expressing disapproval of to just watch the third day of something.” A “rioter” is “a person rioting, looting and arson and who takes part in a violent public Gov. Tony Evers, aslo a Democrat, disturbance. A “looter” refused President Donald Brent E. is “a person who steals Trump’s offer to send in Zepke goods, typically during a the National Guard. war or riot.” An “arsonist” In D.C., Speaker The author is “a person who sets fire Nancy Pelosi, prior to lives in Santa Jan. 6, 2021, chose to to property.” Barbara In Kenosha, the not reinforce capitol protestors were also security despite receiving rioters, looters and arsonists warnings, and even during the (hereinafter “rioters”) as they events, she rejected the National did an estimated $50 million in Guard. damages to private businesses In Kenosha, none of the rioters that may never be rebuilt. In D.C., was arrested, including the three some of the protestors were also men who attacked and tried to rioters but were not looters or shoot Mr. Rittenhouse after saying arsonists and did so little damage, to the him “I am going to kill you:” only $1.5 million, or 3% of that In D.C. the capitol policeman who in Kenosha. At 7:20 that night, shot an unarmed woman was Congress returned to its offices. given an award, and the FBI has A few items were stolen from the arrested an estimated 650. capitol. In Kenosha presidential

candidate Joe Biden called the white, 17-year-old Rittenhouse a “white supremacist” for his defending himself by shooting three white men while not condemning the rioters in Kenosha or the rioters in any of the other 550 cities under attack. Mainstream media, except Fox, joined candidate Kamala Harris in the accusations. In D.C., President Trump immediately condemned the violence. In Kenosha, Mr. Rittenhouse was jailed for 87 days without running water for showering although he was able to communicate with his lawyers. In D.C. most of the estimated 650 arrested were, and are, denied bail or the chance to see lawyers, spouses or children with some being held in solitary confinement with no trial dates by President Barack Obama-appointed federal judges. In Kenosha, Mr. Rittenhouse

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Gratitude on Thanksgiving weekend

God shed His grace on thee!

share with you today or the ship; the ax has the living words of enlarged the borders of our Abraham Lincoln’s settlements, and the mines, Thanksgiving as well of iron and coal Proclamation given as of the precious metals, in 1863 because nobody have yielded even more ever said it — or prayed it abundantly than heretofore. — better. As you read it, I Population has steadily invite you to consider that increased, notwithstanding many of the youth of America the waste that has been will never read it, study it or made in the camp, the believe it. They neither are siege, and the battlefield, taught to believe in God or and the country, rejoicing sin, and thereby, they are not in the consciousness of grateful for the undeserved augmented strength and blessings of this great vigor, is permitted to expect country. In fact, they continuance of years curse the same! with large increase All of these things of freedom. bode ill for those “No human of us who aspire counsel hath to the same faith devised, nor hath and patriotism as any mortal hand President Lincoln, worked out these who understood the great things. They Andy Caldwell value of personal are the gracious gifts humility and of the Most High corporate repentance. God, who while dealing with Hence, let us pray for a us in anger for our sins, hath softening of our hearts, nevertheless remembered the bending of our knees mercy. in humility, and the return “It has seemed to me fit of the American faith and and proper that they should spirit that put God first be solemnly, reverently and and thanked Him for his gratefully acknowledged undeserved blessings and as with one heart and one providence over our nation voice by the whole American in the midst of this current people. political and social civil war. “I do, therefore, invite my The Proclamation: fellow-citizens in every part “The year that is drawing of the United States, and toward its close has been also those who are at sea and filled with the blessings of those who are sojourning fruitful fields and healthful in foreign lands, to set skies. To these bounties, apart and observe the last which are so constantly Thursday of November next enjoyed that we are prone as a Day of Thanksgiving to forget the source from and Praise to our beneficent which they come, others Father who dwelleth in the have been added, which heavens. are of so extraordinary a “And I recommend to them nature that they cannot that, while offering up the fail to penetrate and even ascriptions justly due to Him soften the heart which is for such singular deliverances habitually insensible to the and blessings, they do also, ever-watchful providence of with humble penitence for Almighty God. our national perverseness “In the midst of a civil war and disobedience, commend of unequaled magnitude to His tender care all those and severity, which has who have become widows, sometimes seemed to foreign orphans, mourners or states to invite and provoke sufferers in the lamentable their aggressions, peace civil strife in which we has been preserved with are unavoidably engaged, all nations, order has been and fervently implore the maintained, the laws have interposition of the Almighty been respected and obeyed, hand to heal the wounds of and harmony has prevailed the nation, and to restore it, everywhere, except in the as soon as may be consistent theater of military conflict; with the Divine purposes, to while that theater has been the full enjoyment of peace, greatly contracted by the harmony, tranquility and advancing armies and navies union.” of the Union. “Needful diversions of Andy Caldwell is the COLAB wealth and of strength executive director and host of from the fields of peaceful “The Andy Caldwell Show,” industry to the national airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays defense have not arrested on KZSB AM 1290, the Newsthe plow, the shuttle, Press radio station.

wanted to share with your readers the following verse for Thanksgiving. I borrowed it from the Santa Barbara Elks magazine. “We thank you for the food BEFORE us, the friends and family BESIDE us, and the love we share BETWEEN us.” Thank you for being here for us. Judy Burtsfield Santa Barbara

No one arrived on chariot from heaven

e: Commentary by Henry Schulte (“Troops deserve better treatment,” News-Press, Nov. 21). One of the questions on the test for U.S. citizenship is: What is one reason colonists came to America? The answers accepted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are: 1) Freedom. 2) Political liberty. 3) Religious freedom. 4) Economic opportunity. 5) Escape persecution. That being said, the Pilgrims were among the first “undocumented” immigrants. Did they arrive with passports or visas? No. Did they obtain permanent resident cards or green cards? No. Did they try to assimilate? No. Did they learn native languages and embrace native cultures? No. Did these immigrants abuse and slaughter massive numbers of indigenous people? Yes.

Today, many who are vulnerable and oppressed are fleeing horrendous violence and abject poverty in their home countries. They are not “animals” as former President Donald Trump liked to call them. They are human beings. Most come here (as did earlier immigrants) to escape persecution, poverty and likely death. Legal or not, it’s human nature to pursue the dream of life, liberty and equality. Mr. Trump’s HHS responded by separating children, toddlers and infants from their parents and putting them in cages! What will our descendants think when they learn that we once had something called “tender age” detention centers in the U.S.? This is now part of our regrettable legacy, which some desire to sustain and perpetuate. None of our ancestors arrived here on a chariot from heaven. Robert Baruch Yeosu, South Korea (formerly of Goleta)

Hope for America

ecently 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges. The “Show Trial” was a travesty of justice from day one. Mr. Rittenhouse should never have been charged. He had a right to defend himself against a man who pointed a gun at him, a man who slammed his head with a skateboard and violent criminal rioters. Shame on a president who called Kyle a “white supremacist,” a media that lied and promoted vigilant justice, and those who tried to intimidate the jury. Thankfully, those brave Americans on the jury and an honest judge, did the right thing.

They did not convict an innocent person, they stood up for the rule of law, and they denied mob rule. With this verdict, there is hope for our country. Diana and Don Thorn Carpinteria

This is no dream team

e: James Buckley’s “Dreaming of a Better Government” (News-Press, Nov. 21): Really? Let’s disregard for the moment all the ignorance, incompetence and corruption which characterized Trump’s administration and make him unfit to be president again or governor of Florida. Sarah Palin for secretary of state? She claimed that her qualification to be vice president was the proximity of her state of Alaska to Russia. Ryan Zinke for interior secretary (again)? He was forced to resign in 2019 because of ethical improprieties. Ron DiSantis and Kristi Noem as the 2024 Republican ticket? Both are vigorous deniers and resisters of recommended scientific COVID policies. Alan Dershowitz as attorney general? He is credibly accused of involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal with underage girls. Pretty impressive lineup! Also, Mr. Buckley, why don’t you specify the “trickery” you claim won 81 million votes for Biden in 2020? Perhaps because there is no evidence. You continue to propagate the “Big Lie” about a stolen 2020 election, but repeating a lie doesn’t make it any more true. Steve Daniels Santa Barbara

Reality remains undefeated

Editor’s note: Josh Hammer took a Thanksgiving break. Ben Sharpiro is filling in for him.

There is one thing we do know: The suspect should not have been on the street. He had a rap sheet longer than the first five books of his week, a 39-yearthe Bible. old black man His latest alleged in Waukesha, crime took place on Wisc.,, plowed Nov. 5, when he was a maroon Ford charged with resisting Escape into a Christmas an officer, bail jumping, parade of children and recklessly endangering older women. Six people safety, disorderly conduct were killed and another and battery. First, he 48 were injured. The allegedly slammed the Ben Shapiro motive of the suspect is mother of his child with unknown; if the media his fist, and then ran her have their way, it will over — wait for it — in remain that way. a maroon Ford Escape. He was The media apparently only care released on Friday ... on $1,000 about why suspects commit violent bail. Two days later, he ran his acts when motives can be credited vehicle over innocent victims. to their political enemies. The Milwaukee County District

Attorney’s Office has now opened an investigation into the low bail. But we already know just why the bail process allowed the suspect back out onto the street: Equity demanded it. In May 2015, Jeffrey Toobin wrote in The New Yorker about “The Milwaukee Experiment.” The piece was a long, sycophantic love letter to John Chisholm, the district attorney of Milwaukee County, who had embraced criminal justice policies geared toward rectifying “the racial imbalance in American prisons.” According to one of Mr. Chisholm’s admirers, “Chisholm stuck his neck out there and started saying that prosecutors Please see SHAPIRO on C4

m going to repeat, make no mistake, what’s happening in our country is a very well-planned and orchestrated takeover. It’s been fermenting for way too many years, and we’ve been allowing it to happen, because it transpired a little bit at a time, and it slipped past us. From the corruption of the media slowly switching from news to opinion to having big tech become so huge they’re untouchable. But even the above along with the woke philosophy and the cancel mob, still a part of this takeover — they are not the real culprits. They are the tools. We’ve allowed outside influence with the likes of George Soros who has made significant inroads by funding the campaigns of crazy leftist district attorneys. They’re now planted all over the country, not prosecuting and releasing as many criminals as fast as they can. What could possibly be the motive to endanger innocent people is being perpetrated by the very people who are supposed to uphold the law? One answer is to create as much chaos and as fast as you can before midterms. Toss in the madness the Democrats are creating with open borders, and add the Mexican cartels who have set up shop in 11 states, likely more. These are the killers, drug dealers, human traffickers who made Mexico the disaster it is. Before long they too will be too big to stop. And by cutting back on policing, we’ve seen the increase in crime and before we know it, all this anarchy will begin to implode this country. Their very intention. I was reading about Marxist “Che’” Guevara, who was spawned by Fidel Castro in the revolution to take over Cuba. That’s when it occurred to me, we really are in the middle of our own revolution. It was Guevara who also moved Castro toward communism. When Guevara tried to bring his revolution to Bolivia, it was called “foco” — French for focus. The premise was the revolutionaries could bring focus to the inequalities and lead the people in a revolution, even if they weren’t aware that they needed to rebel, according to historian James Stejskal. It didn’t end well for Guevara, but there are many in this country who still think he’s a hero when he was nothing more than a murderer. As for Castro, in 1959 he announced the end to all private ownership of guns and said, “This is not a dictatorship. We are never going to use force because we belong to the people.” Well, we’ve seen how well that worked out for the people of Cuba. The Democrats are desperately trying the same thing: Take guns away from law-abiding citizens. However, they never tell you how they’re going to take them away from the criminals and now the evergrowing cartels. Or for that matter, are they going to take away the guns of politicians, the wealthy or Hollywood? The quickest way to start a real civil war with guns, is to try and take them away. If we reach that point, it will take the jaws of life to bring this country back to what it once was. The media and the woke again tried to make the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse about guns and “white” people running amok. In his own words, it was never about Kyle Rittenhouse; it was about the right to defend yourself. We who still think for ourselves held our breath because to take away the right to defend ourselves advances the revolutionary plans by leaps and bounds. And before the lights were even turned off in the courthouse, the shouts, Please see SCHULTE on C4

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How many more have to die for the big lies?

dare you to look, with a clear and unfiltered lens, at the bloody nightmare we once called the United States of America. Connect the dots. Contemplate the utter chaos in every major city while Black Lives Matter militants, academics and bureaucrats prattle on about “systemic racism” and “two-tiered justice.” It’s about much more than the horrific mass murders and attempted murders in Waukesha, Wisc., where the annual Christmas parade will now forever be stained by the wanton acts of alleged killer Darrell Brooks — a convicted sex offender and domestic abuser who sailed through George Sorosfunded Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s soft-onblack crime revolving door like a Six Flags season pass holder. Look at Philadelphia, home to another Soros-funded D.A., where four black teenage girls beat the stuffing out of a group of Asian students on a SEPTA train in broad daylight last week. The lead aggressor, a hulking female in a hijab, brutally punished one Asian girl for asking her to stop harassing

her friends. Viral video shows how daughter is” defense was most Ms. Islam-Is-Peace tackled the recently invoked by former NBA intervener to the ground and beat player Corey Benjamin, whose her over the head with her shoe little thugette was caught on video and clenched fists. Not a single just a few weeks ago in Garden adult intervened. Grove, sucker-punching an Asian Un-prosecutor Larry Krasner, girl at a basketball game. The who campaigned on black girl’s mom goaded her “restorative justice” daughter from the sidelines policies to protect black and jeered, “Go and hit teenage criminals her.” from prison sentences, Papa Benjamin claimed has now filed “ethnic he was “shocked and intimidation” charges disappointed at my against the SEPTA daughter’s behavior as this gangsters. But who Michelle Malkin is not a reflection of the would he have believed values and standards that if there had not been my family holds.” Never video? And what would mind that Mama incited he have done if the victims were the violence or that the boxing white? Benjamin had assaulted two other The mother of the profanityfemale basketball players just spewing brute told NBC10: weeks prior. “My daughter did not mean it. But this is not who they are. And When she gets the opportunity to, it’s never their fault. she will give a sincere apology. ... Look at the living hellhole of As you can clearly see in the video, New York City, where homeless my daughter is Muslim. We do not lunatics push random strangers off carry ourselves that way. We carry subway platforms, repeat offenders ourselves with respect, modesty rob and beat pedestrians on their and humility.” way to work, and druggies urinate, Where have I heard that before? defecate and fornicate openly on Ah, yes. The “that’s not who my once-safe tourist thoroughfares.

Look at Oak Brook, Ill.,, just outside woke-hijacked Chicago, where mobs of diverse thieves carted off $120,000 from a Louis Vuitton store on Wednesday afternoon. Look at Walnut Creek, where roving bands of black-clad gangs absconded with $200,000 worth of merchandise from Nordstrom. Similar crime rings hit luxury stores in Hayward, San Jose and Los Angeles. We are all supposed to pretend we can’t discern the race of the criminals so “experts” can castigate us for using racist terms like “looting” to describe ... looting. We are hectored repeatedly by the Biden administration that “white supremacy” is the root of all this country’s problems. CNN reported as “news” this week that “there’s nothing more frightening in America today than an angry white man.” Systemic racism and two-tiered justice won’t allow black criminals to get a fair shake, we are propagandized over and over — even as a new catch-and-release carousel-riding Darrell Brooks emerges with numbing regularity by the week or day.

The scourge of Soros D.A.s has ushered in nothing but misery, filth and death across the ravaged plain in the name of social justice, but if we just tear down one more Thomas Jefferson statue, strip away one more Confederate general’s name off a military base and toss another trillion or two or 10 or 20 at “diversity, inclusion and equity” initiatives to make white people atone for their alleged sins, peace and harmony will prevail. Fraud upon fraud upon fraud. How many more innocent Dancing Grannies and schoolchildren have to die for the Big Lies? When will more good people stop reflexively cringing in the face of accusations of “racism” and call out the racist system of two-tiered justice that is actually bringing America to its knees? 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.

Congresswoman writes Fauci about Beaglegate

hen I lived in old age. Other than luck, probably a Connecticut their longevity was due to their suburb, from time charming, willful personalities to time I’d get an (escaping confines were just urgent call from forays — they wanted, like Lassie, my neighbor, Chris. “Have you to come home, eventually) and seen Bagel?”, Chris would ask stubbornness. Once beagles and breathlessly on the phone. terriers get a scent of adventure Bagel was the Smith’s beagle up their nostrils, they don’t give in. and, like all beagles, had a nose Maybe that’s why beagles are one for adventure. If anyone of America’s most beloved left a door open in the breeds. Unless, of course, Calla Jones Smith house, Bagel was it’s because of Snoopy. Corner out and off. Usually Perhaps before Dr. The author Bagel turned up in Anthony Fauci spent lives in someone’s yard, and a millions of taxpayer funds Montecito simple telephone call from NIAID (National would bring the cute, Institute of Allergy and but oh so naughty, little Infectious Diseases) fellow back home. torturing beagle puppies, he’d I was at the top of Chris’ “find ignored that Charles Schultz often Bagel” list. We had a cairn terrier, transformed his charismatic, who would bark to signal that renegade beagle into to an ace Bagel was on the loose — again. World War I fighter pilot intent on If Elsie was in our enclosed yard, taking out the Red Baron. With Bagel’s first stop would be to his deadly doghouse cum-Sopwith check in with Elsie. Maybe he was Camel, Snoopy is now being called hoping that Elsie, somehow, could again to take out an evil human. join him in an adventure. Didn’t Dr. Fauci may never be fired he realize that terriers also had or resign for his role in funding minds of their own, in addition to the Wuhan Institute experiments a nose for adventure, and that’s with coronaviruses. But what has why we had an enclosed yard? become known as #Beaglegate, Both Bagel and Elsie lived to may very well be responsible for

the virologist being finally shot down by beagle-lovers and animal lovers writ large. With the news on Oct. 27 about a letter written by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and signed by nine other nonpartisan congressmen and congresswomen to Dr. Fauci and the NIAID about an invoice for slitting the puppies’ vocal cords, (cordectomy), to prevent them from barking or crying while being tortured, beagle owners let out a nationwide howl. A watchdog group, White Coat Waste Project, had already obtained documents in January 2021, that Dr. Fauci had approved a $378,800 grant to a Tunisian lab in 2018 and 2019 for an experiment in which 44 healthy, beagle puppies were bitten to death by infected flies. When The Beagle Freedom Project sent a letter demanding that Dr. Fauci and the agency stop funding the “cruel” tests on all puppies, more animal rights organizations joined the pack. PETA has called for Dr. Fauchi’s resignation. Beagle babies worldwide can thank Snoopy that this puppy purgatory has now been exposed.

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John Stossel

Thank private property

appy Thanksgiving! But beware the “tragedy of the commons.” It almost killed off the Pilgrims. Now, via Washington, D.C., it’s probably coming for us. Tragedy of the commons is a concept from an essay by ecologist Garrett Hardin. He wrote how cattle ranchers sharing a common parcel of land soon destroyed that land. That’s because each rancher has an incentive to put cattle on the common. Soon the extra animals eat all the grass. Shared grazing space is destroyed because no rancher has an incentive to conserve. If the ranchers put up a few fences and divide the land, each rancher has an incentive to limit grazing. That saves the grass and the cattle. Sharing things and “public” property sound nice, but only private ownership reliably inspires people to conserve and protect. No one washes a rental car. I bring this up now because the Democrats’ new multi trillion-dollar spending bills are all about expanding the commons: more free highways, free health care, free daycare, free money for parents, housing subsidies, tax credits for electric vehicles, etc. All these handouts discourage responsibility by making it easier to take from the “commons.” Save for retirement? Why? The government will cover it. Save up for college? Why? Government will give you grants and loans and then forgive those loans. I bring this up now because this same sort of thinking nearly killed the pilgrims. When they came to America, the pilgrims decided to share everything. The governor of Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, wrote that the pilgrims thought “taking away property and (making it communal) ... would make them happy and flourishing.” Food and supplies were distributed based on need. Pilgrims would not selfishly produce food for themselves. Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Thanksgiving and Lincoln’s Legacy Editor’s note: Like News-Press columnist Andy Caldwell in his commentary on Page C2, columnist Arthur I. Cyr was thinking about Abraham Lincoln this Thanksgiving. In this article, Professor Cyr examines Civil War history.

hanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point. On Oct. 3, 1863, the White House issued the Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday of November to be a “day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who

dwelleth in the Heavens.” The Secretary of State William H. proclamation also requested “the Seward signed the document. interposition of the Almighty Lincoln and Seward by then were Hand to heal the wounds of the friends as well as allies. nation and to restore … peace, Unity was an overarching harmony, and Union.” Lincoln theme throughout Earlier, Lincoln had ordered the Civil War, employed with government offices closed shrewd calculation on Nov. 28, 1861 for a day and brilliant political Arthur I. of thanksgiving. Up until timing. By the fall of Cyr the 1863 proclamation, 1863, the strategic individual states had position of the Union celebrated days of giving thanks. had taken a welcome turn for the Sarah Joseph Hale, editor of better. the influential “Godey’s Lady’s In July, there were two Book,” had written to Lincoln significant victories: the Battle of in late September of that year Gettysburg in Pennsylvania and pressing for a national day of the capture of Vicksburg, Miss. A thanks, a goal she pursued for sizable Confederate army never many years without success. again would invade the North, According to Lincoln’s and the great Mississippi River administrative aide John Nicolay, was now completely in Union

control. During the preceding year, one military development provided Lincoln precious political opportunity. On Sept. 17, 1862, the Army of the Potomac, under General George B. McClellan, defeated General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Antietam Creek in Maryland. The victory was technical; Lee withdrew in order but left the Union forces in control. Nevertheless, the outcome qualified as a Union military success, desperately welcome. Lincoln faced extremely serious challenges beyond the Confederacy. General McClellan was popular with rank-andfile soldiers; he also nurtured

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national political ambitions. He was committed to the Union but strongly opposed abolition of slavery. A talented organizer and administrator, he refused to be aggressive in attacking Lee’s army. McClellan became insubordinate, demanding control over all war policy. Lincoln then fired him. McClellan became the Democratic Party’s 1864 presidential nominee; Lincoln defeated him again. President Lincoln, finally confirming control of the Army, moved quickly to exploit the Antietam victory by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. The executive order of Jan. 1, 1863 Please see CYR on C4

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It’s a verbal civil war driven by hate SCHULTE

Continued from Page C2 once again even by our own vice president, that we need to have “criminal justice reform” because they didn’t get the outcome they wanted. We are in the midst of witnessing the results of the defund-the-police stupidity so it’s a bit unsettling. While the Dems hold on to power for the next year, they could possibly try and destroy the one thing that truly separates us from the rest of world: the right to a trial by a jury of your peers. This revolution is turning Americans against Americans. It’s a verbal civil war driven by hate and it’s working. And the Democrats are fighting hard to add teeth to their takeover. Their plan is already in motion: First thing is shut down all dissent. Then take out as many of your enemy as you can, even locking them up for no reason. Indoctrinate the children to their way of thinking and using them to further the revolution. End oil production and make things more expensive and thereby making survival

more difficult. Then render your enemies defenseless. When enough chaos has been created and the country buckles, in comes the federal government to save the day. The war is on, and it’s real. Every corner of our country is infiltrated with the enemy and trying to destroy and create as much havoc as they can. When criminals get the green light that nothing is going to happen to them, that’s when you get 80 people looting a Nordstrom, Louis Vuitton, Walgreens and more. The scourge is spreading rapidly. On the upside there is some good news. More websites are emerging offering something besides the propaganda and censuring from the liberal sites. And they’re finding ways to not rely on the likes of Google. The recent elections, especially Virginia, gave another sliver of hope. And parents are stepping up to fight back against the garbage being forced upon their kids. You can’t let up. The revolution is real, and we’re seeing the inklings of an uprising under way.

Chesa Boudin announced that he would end ‘mass incarceration’ SHAPIRO

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No individual pilgrim owned crops they grew STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 In other words, they, like Sen. Bernie Sanders and many American young people today, fell in love with the idea of socialism. The result was ugly. When the first harvest came, there wasn’t nearly enough food. Many pilgrims died that winter. If the Wampanoag American Indians hadn’t helped them, all might have starved. It was the tragedy of the commons. No individual pilgrim owned crops they grew, so no one had an incentive to work harder to produce extra to sell to others.

Since even slackers got food from the communal supply, they had no incentive to work hard. Many didn’t. Strong men thought it was an “injustice” that they “had no more in division of victuals and clothes than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could.” Women had to cook and clean for other women’s husbands, and they “deemed it a kind of slavery.” The shared farming, Bradford concluded, “was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit.” When the Pilgrims ran out of food, they “began to think how

they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop ... that they might not still thus languish in misery.” Their solution was private property. They split up the collective farm and gave every family a plot of land. That was a big success. “It made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been,” wrote Bradford. “The women now went willingly into the field and took their little ones with them to set corn.” Before, they “would allege weakness and inability.” Thanks to individual plots of land, food shortages turned into a surplus that became the feast we

now call Thanksgiving. “All men have this corruption,” Bradford observed. In a common, everyone wants to take as much as they can. Private property created prosperity. This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for private property. It’s why I can eat turkey. 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.

The Emancipation Proclamation is a detailed, dry document CYR

Continued from Page C3 freed slaves in the Confederate states. From the fall of 1862, the U.S. government issued a series of warnings under the Second Confiscation Act, passed by Congress on July 17, 1862. The legislation confirmed Lincoln’s war powers. Critics have argued Lincoln

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In 2019, under Past President Robert Shroll, the Lions raised more than $48,000, which went to benefit the robotics program at Carpinteria High School and the High School Safe/Sober Prom (which then was used to benefit the students since COVID-19 interrupted the prom). This year;s Festival of Trees opened on Friday for all to come view and buy your $1 chance

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Continued from Page C1 of the Trump presidency. Talking head Rachel Maddow of MSNBC led the pack in promulgating on-air misinformation night after night about Russia and President Trump’s so-called connection to President Putin. “Morning Joe” Scarborough of MSNBC took up the task of spreading the lies for the morning cable TV group. Congressional representatives Adam Schiff, Gerry Nadler, Maxine Waters and, well, virtually the entire Democrat Party, piled on. With that, you had a full-

should have included states in the Union, but that would have been unlawful and unwise. Slavery was still legal under the Constitution and ended in law only when a sufficient number of states ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, announced Dec. 18, 1865. Slavery had support in border states and areas of the North. By design, the Emancipation Proclamation is a detailed, dry

document that makes the case for removing property, with emphasis on procedure. There is no reference to fundamental moral concerns expressed elsewhere, especially in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural address. Civil War goals changed from only restoring the Union to abolition of slavery. Abraham Lincoln used practical means for transcendent

goals, with astonishing political skill. Give thanks.

(per ticket) to win a tree. Lion Mike Dawson said the club has 24 trees sponsored by different groups this year. All the trees have a minimum value of $500 worth of gifts under them, yet they all usually pass up that value. Carpinteria High School Class of 1978 returned this year with a goal of $7,800 value, and the class surpassed it. The gifts under the class’ tree are accompanied by cash. The event is located at 700 Linden Ave. in Carpinteria

(the old Hickey building). One hundred percent of the money raised this year will go toward building the Carpinteria Skate Park. On weekdays, you can stop by between 2 and 8 p.m. and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekends. The drawing for raffle winners will be at noon Dec. 12. Many come out for the drawing in the parking lot at 700 Linden Ave. You don’t need to be present to win, but members want to make sure you can pick up your tree

and everything under it that day. Bring your debit or credit card to buy lots of tickets. Let’s help them beat that record as they raise funds for the Carpinteria Skate Park as they look to finish the amazing design that is decades in the making. The Lions Club credo is act local, think global.

Arthur I. Cyr is a Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., and author of “After the Cold War” (NYU Press and Palgrave/ Macmillan). He is also director of the Clausen Center. He welcomes questions and comments at acyr@ carthage.edu

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

‘A full-scale attack’ scale attack composed of the entertainment industry, the mainstream press, the Democratic establishment, the national teachers unions, government union workers at all levels, the U.S. intelligence services (including former heads of those services), the leadership of federal law enforcement (FBI head Comey, et al.), virtually all of academia, and even top brass in the military, conspiring to damage, destroy, weaken, and/ or oust duly elected President Donald J. Trump. And, to paraphrase Sen. Reid: “Well, he didn’t win, did he? No. He didn’t. It was a real coup. The fact that President Trump

received more than 74 million votes — the most, by far, of any sitting president, ever — after such a coordinated barrage of targeted and nonstop negative publicity over the entire four years of his presidency is actually quite astounding. Lifetime politician Joe Biden, hunkered down in a basement, held the occasional “rally” of hundreds of parked cars in outdoor venues, while political novice President Trump drew tens of thousands of masked and unmasked supporters at every venue all over the country. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, however, ballot bundlers in the critical “battleground” states were duly harvesting their bounty. After

all, they had a month in many cases to do just that. Surprisingly, beady-eyed basement dweller Biden and his cackling compadre Harris received 81 million votes and won the election handily. Go figure. Though Biden supporters may compare us to those Japanese on isolated islands who hid in their caves for decades, refusing to believe they lost World War II, no one should wonder why there are so many who continue to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

should also be judged by their success in reducing mass incarceration and achieving racial equality.” Not reducing crime. Reducing the number of people in jail — and more particularly, the number of black Americans in jail. Mr. Chisholm himself admitted the costs of his policies in 2007: “Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into a treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen.” Mr. Chisholm, of course, was right. San Francisco proved the same point this week when large, roving gangs began looting high-end stores. On Friday night, San Francisco’s Union Square witnessed a massive group of looters smashing and grabbing at a Louis Vuitton store. Meanwhile, thieves congregated to steal products in Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Hayward and San Jose. None of this ought to be a surprise. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced that he would end “mass incarceration” and cash bail. He stopped prosecuting shoplifting cases. In 2020, just

44% of shoplifting cases were prosecuted. The result: Stores are closing down in San Francisco thanks to the automatic surcharge of people stealing their product from the shelves. Reality with regard to criminality isn’t all that complicated. When you free criminals unjustifiably in a misguided attempt to achieve “group equity,” innocents suffer. When you take cops off the street, freeing criminals to work their will, innocents suffer. When you refuse to prosecute crime, criminals spot an opportunity. Voters can either continue to deny reality and pay the price, or they can wake up to the simple fact that reality always wins. Until they do the latter, the criminals — and the politicians who enable them — will be the only winners. Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire. com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History” and “Bullies.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

The criminal justice system needed to be reformed

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Continued from Page C1 attempt to overthrow the existing government. In Kenosha, the prosecutor Thomas Blinger, a Democrat, was scolded by the judge for unethical tactics. In D.C. the federal system is fighting the equivalent of a “war of attrition” by depriving those defendants of an ability to work or see their families unless they confess. In Kenosha despite the attempts to intimidate the jury by such tactics as publishing their names, an MSNBC reporter tailing the jurors’ bus as it drove them home at night and BLM threatening riots if there was an acquittal, the jury acquitted Mr. Rittenhouse of all charges. In D.C., Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a task force to subpoena the phone and computer records of some Republican congressmen and members of the Trump White House despite executive privileges. In Kenosha after the acquittal, the police controlled the protests while in cities, such as Portland, the home of Antifa, riots were declared. In D.C., or Delaware, the president and vice president were joined by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in asserting that the criminal justice system needed to be

reformed — because of Kenosha, not D.C. — and the head of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler, a Democrat, recommended federal intervention in Kenosha while the mainstream media CNN, owned by Comcast, and MSNBC, owned by AT&T, slandered Fox, the jury and Mr. Rittenhouse. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden said he was only “monitoring” Darrell Brooks, the black man who killed five and injured 48 whites by driving into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisc., just hours after being released on $1,000 bail from a reckless-endangerment charge. Republicans renewed their opposition to the low bail legislation. The Democrats continued their support. Was there some truth in Mr. Graham’s comments? Who would you trust with your future? The prosecutors? Judges? Politicians? Mainstream media? Fox? Or the jury of private citizens? 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 HeartTwo Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer” and “Law for Non-Lawyers.”