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California is Well-Known as the Land of Fruits and Nuts
Townhall.com ^ | July 18, 2016 | Arthur Schaper

Posted on 07/18/2016 6:44:07 AM PDT by Kaslin

Too bad we can’t keep them all in one bowl, pour on the milk, and chow down. Some of us feel destined to remain stuck in the pits.

Tragically, disgraceful, reprobate lawmakers are not only turning California into sanctuary state for illegal aliens, but also the final resting place for bigots, statist, and budding tyrants. Indeed, the state legislature just shoved a rash of anti-Second Amendment bills down our barrels. Now it will be a crime to buy guns with a “bullet button” for example. California has one of the worst business climates, with the highest taxes in the nation (including the gas tax). The state taxes businesses for creating carbon. Will residents get fined for breathing, too? Arrogant California lawmakers and executives have declared war on individual liberty, specifically the First Amendment.

Granted, I am sure you have heard of Attorney General (and soon-to-be U.S. Senator) Kamala Harris shaking down pro-life forces. They exposed that Planned Murderhood is not just an abortion mill, but a body-part profiteer. Ten videos exposed backroom deals selling the heart, the brains, and the outer fetal tissue to the highest bidder over a cup of coffee.

Korrupt Kammy got $81,000 grant from Planned Murderhood, and pro-life forces demanded her resignation. So far, she hasn’t budged, but has backed out of the limelight. For now, California voters must resign themselves to the improbably rise of Willie Brown’s girlfriend, a criminal-friendly progressive who never met a conservative she wouldn’t shake down.

California lawmakers wanted to legalize the investigation and prosecution of individual (and corporate) interests who questioned climate change. The Green Inquisition has been hitting roadblocks in Washington, thankfully. Turning over a new leaf in California politics, the Environmentalist lobby has hit another hedge, as moderate lawmakers have gutted radical anti-green, anti-carbon—and anti-reality—proposals.

Big Green took a big fail last term in the California state legislature, and more concerned homeowners, taxpayers, and businesses hope for more business-friendly legislation in the future.

But the tyranny against freedom of speech, thought, and religious has not ended. The worst offender among them all? Not Governor Moonbeam, although his second tenure as Governor has been anything but beaming or shiny.

To date, California state senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell, Bell Gardens, and many other corrupted regions of Los Angeles County) has earned the dubious title of “Biggest Bigot”, and has submitted his most noxious bill yet: Senate Bill 1146.

Lara’s glibly promotes this proposed law as the “Equality in Education Act”, but truly it’s another sordid piece of legislation which will codify and enhance discrimination against law-abiding citizens and institutions. While Lara claims that LGBTXYZ-pick-a-letter students face discrimination on campuses because those colleges have an exemption from Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the truth is that Christian colleges by and large operate along more narrow standards than other post-secondary institutions. Education is inherently discriminatory, guiding students to discern between right and wrong as well as among diverse sets of opinion. At least, those standards should guide university education and student life. Let’s go one step further. Biology, reality, truth, integrity: these essentials to civilization are also discriminatory, promoting what is good and what works, compared to what is false and destructive.

Education and upbringing are supposed to do that. Lara has a problem with this very commonsense, long-standing institutional practice.

In spite of this thing called “The First Amendment” and the freedom of conscience embedded within its precepts, the aggressive homosexual lobby has targeted churches, charities, and small businesses to accommodate same-sex marriages and adoptions, despite the proprietors’ objections to such conduct. Professionals in many callings also face pressure to cave to the Big Gay Hate Machine, or lose their jobs. Just ask Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran, Dr. Eric Walsh, and Dr. Paul Church.

Since when did cultural Marxism become a pretext for discrimination against private persons and corporate interests to accommodate same-sex behavior or the mental delusion of men pretending to be women?! Since when did men and women have to toss aside their rights not to participate in certain activities?

And yet, State Senator Ricardo Lara wants to shove this agenda onto Christian schools throughout the state of California. For the record, note that Lara targets Christian schools. Isn’t that invidious discrimination in itself?

Of course, this odious legislative fraud has garnered intense, national opposition.

Barry Corey, the President of Biola University, one of the United States’ most famous Christina Bible colleges and based in La Mirada, CA has articulated a compelling yet respectful pleas against this terrible proposal. Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute has ramped up the counter-mentum against this ill-conceived bill. Californians—and all concerned citizens of conscience—have been slamming individual legislators to reject this bill by social media, phone calls, and public demonstrations. Residents all over California traveled all the way to the state capital in Sacramento to protest this legislation, too.

And last of all, an extension of the world-renowned and growing pro-family group MassResistance has expanded and extended its role in the fight against life, liberty, and family. California MassResistance (full disclosure, I serve as its director) members have ramped up the pressure, protesting not just in front of Target stores, but now going to legislators up and down the state. Check out our group’s demonstration in front of Ricardo Lara’s office here.

The outrage against SB 1146 is spreading across the country, too. Check out MassResistance’s latest update on the terrible bill and the growing opposition against it. Last time I checked, this is still the United States of America, and no state, no state legislator, has the right to infringe on anyone’s right to freedom of speech, the press, assembly, petition and religion.

California conservatives are fighting the good fight—and winning!—against illiberal tyranny and unruly intolerance, and in the most unlikely of states: liberal-loony, nutty-fruity California.


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1 posted on 07/18/2016 6:44:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The 1965 immigration act set in motion the conversion of California into a colony of the Third World.

Followed by the invasion of California by New York liberals like Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer in the 1970s.

Then Reagan’s extremely misguided 1986 Amnesty cemented the La Raza beachhead, converting American suburbs into decaying Mexican barrios with gangs and graffiti and all of the other Family Values that Don’t Stop at the Rio Grande celebrated by the dimwitted Mexican patriots of the Bush family.

Short of mass-deportation and scrapping the 1965 immigration act, nothing in this state is going to change.


2 posted on 07/18/2016 6:54:51 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: Kaslin

In the 1970’s I lived in Manhattan. I had a neighbor who worked for in a hospital for the mentally ill. When they were released they were given the opportunity to be given a one way ticket to California. A lot of them took it.


3 posted on 07/18/2016 6:59:46 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Pelham

“Short of mass deportation and scrapping the 1965 immigration act, nothing in this state is going to change.”

Okay, so you know what to do...


4 posted on 07/18/2016 7:02:04 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: IC Ken

IIRC, it was Mike Royko that named California the Granola State for that very reason.


5 posted on 07/18/2016 7:07:47 AM PDT by burroak
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To: dsc

I’ve known what to do since 1994 when I voted for Prop 187, opposed by the GOPe treason lobby who allied themselves with the illegals. Among the prominent traitors were Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and the then Governor of Texas GW Bush.


6 posted on 07/18/2016 7:09:04 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: Kaslin

He forgot about the flakes.


7 posted on 07/18/2016 7:11:40 AM PDT by Purdue77 (We got robbed!! Hillary for Prosecution and Prison.)
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To: Pelham

Back in 1994 I still thought that most Republican politicians were honest.


8 posted on 07/18/2016 7:13:57 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Kaslin

Where is it, this place in the photo..?

I cannot recognize that California vista.

I think it’s possible that is not California.


9 posted on 07/18/2016 7:19:11 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Pelham
I’ve known what to do since 1994 when I voted for Prop 187

Same here. I still haven't forgiven that one rotten judge who overturned the will of six million Californians. I hope she spends eternity experiencing the crimes committed by the illegals who would not be in California if not for her...from the point of view of the victims.

10 posted on 07/18/2016 7:21:29 AM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: Nea Wood

‘Same here. I still haven’t forgiven that one rotten judge who overturned the will of six million Californians. ‘

Mariana Pfaelzer.

But she didn’t do it on her own, he ruling stands only because neither Arnold nor Gray Davis nor Jerry Brown chose to appeal her decision. Her ruling can be appealed at any time.


11 posted on 07/18/2016 7:25:18 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: dsc

‘Back in 1994 I still thought that most Republican politicians were honest.’

That Prop 187 fight taught me just how vile and treasonous the GOPe are. It would take some time for that lesson to filter out to the rest of the country but the Trump revolution shows that we all get it now.


12 posted on 07/18/2016 7:31:06 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: gaijin

That pic is from Catalina Island offshore of Los Angeles. The building is the Avalon Ballroom.


13 posted on 07/18/2016 7:35:10 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: Pelham

I lived in Southern California for 16 years, but I’ve never been to Catalina.

Still, I had a feeling that picture was taken on the island of Catalina. Guess my instinct was right.


14 posted on 07/18/2016 7:46:32 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban muslims, NOT guns.....Register liberals, NOT guns)
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To: Kaslin

California is about to change it’s name to Bend Over.


15 posted on 07/18/2016 7:46:52 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: gaijin

Where is it, this place in the photo..?

Avalon, Catalina Island


16 posted on 07/18/2016 8:14:37 AM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: Pelham; ExTexasRedhead

“Followed by the invasion of California by New York liberals like Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer in the 1970s.”

Sorry to say, Fineswine is a home-grown Capo Communist, but Boxster is a NY Capo Communist transplant as is Pelousey (a Catholic Communist twit), who hails from that “wonderful city” of Baltimore, where her father was mayor. But you are correct that our undoing was “migrants” from the East Coast, followed by “migrants?” from Mexico and points South.

“Short of mass-deportation and scrapping the 1965 immigration act, nothing in this state is going to change.”

I think that economic collapse is the only thing that will return California to sanity, and I’ve seen it all in my nearly 76 years living here.


17 posted on 07/18/2016 8:25:02 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387

CA is a cesspool and is headed for the sewer at a fast clip.


18 posted on 07/18/2016 8:36:56 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: gaijin
Where is it, this place in the photo..?

Catalina Island. It's not California - illegals can't swim that far. :)

19 posted on 07/18/2016 8:42:50 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Kaslin

My mom used to call it the “land of fruits and nuts” back in the 1950s, as she had a sister that lived in Santa Barbara.


20 posted on 07/18/2016 8:45:02 AM PDT by nascarnation
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