City races promise to be entertaining
Over the past few days, this reporter has done radio-style podcast interviews with most of the 14 candidates who will vie for city elected seats.
These podcasts, 20 minutes, no-holds barred, promise to be exciting. We'll be launcing most of them this Friday, Sept. 14, along with candidate bios and photo galleries. As expected, activist and blogger Joseph Turner, who is running for city clerk, was fast and furious. This reporter asks him straight out if he's a racist - as many have charged - and why his presumed right-wing allies on the council abandoned him the moment he declared. His answers may be shocking.
Other notables include Stewart Cumming and James Mulvihill, both of whom delivered strong in their 20-minute interviews. Mulvihill, in particular, comes off as intelligent, capable and bold. He says the culture of the police department must change, which surely will win him some enemies, and he makes no secret that he generally sees the city council as currently impeding the progress Mayor Pat Morris could be making. It was on this blog Monday that we reported it was very likely Morris would be endorsing Mulvihill this week.




Joe Turner is a Rascist....Just look at the photos. http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/182264.php
The Organization he started "Save Our State" SOS is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. check out their web-site:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp?S=CA&m=5
Joe Turner is fighting the imminent complete dissolution of the Anglo-Saxon conquerors’ descendents’ dominance of this great society we are abundantly blessed to reside within. It is a losing battle; history has shown us that all great societies follow a curve of ending in their ultimate and inevitable decline. Ours will be no different.
Opinions vary on the precise event, or time, when the decline of our society began, but there is no source for reputable negation for the claim that we are, indeed, in a state of decline as a society.
The claim that returning to monolingual English instruction in our schools would leave thousands of children uneducated flies in the face of countless immersion method linguistic models successfully providing fluency in a non-native tongue of choice to participants world-wide.
There is no blinder person than the one that refuses to see. Our exiting generation has left us with the burden of correcting their grave errors in judgment. Mistakes have been made. The consequences are staring us in the face at every turn, yet many refuse to see.
It was a mistake to offer automatic citizenship to any baby born within our borders.
A child’s citizenship upon birth corresponds to that of the birthing parent. OK, that’s too PC for even me: it corresponds to that of the mother – everywhere but here.
It was a mistake to allow pregnant women entry here without proof of insurance, as other countries require for all visitors. Try getting into even small Bulgaria without it! But here we’re the slaphappy go-lucky fool in the schoolyard, being robbed of our lunch money as we roll giggling on the ground, thinking we’re being tickled.
It was a mistake to not enforce the laws on our books. Of special note are the disastrous consequences Corporate America’s mandated greed at all costs has provoked through dedicated lobbying to maintain the status quo and ensure that they are allowed the widest profit margin in the now with no regard for the consequences that will come after. INS resumption of workplace sweeps needs to resume.
It was a mistake to allow loopholes for driver’s licensing so that a foreign driver’s license may be used to obtain insurance here, oftentimes after a previously obtained domestic license has been revoked for repeated DUIs. It is insult added to the injury that these foreign driver’s licenses, when also ultimately confiscated, are easily replaced, for a fee, in another identity. The loophole between insurance companies and any driver’s license of any national origin needs to be closed. Signs touting, “Mexican Driver’s License OK!” in insurance broker storefronts are an affront to common decency. How can anyone who has been affected by a drunken driver disagree?
It was a mistake to allow our manual labor pool to be undercut by the unskilled, undocumented illegal workforce completing tasks shoddily while hung-over, or under the influence on the job site after drinking another 12 ounces, or more, “para la cruda”, (for the hang over).
It was a mistake to allow State Fund worker’s compensation claims for the injuries, real or staged, that illegal workers provoke through their own incompetence or greed.
It was a mistake to incorporate the illegal segment of our population into the Social Security System. At first blush, this seemed a fine way of collecting revenues otherwise missed. But, a closer look reveals the Social Security Administration numbers of children born to repatriated parents when here are being rented to illegal invaders here today with their shiny new amnesty-issue SSA numbers, or FTNs, provided without question to anyone seeking same, today at a rate of $500.00 per dependent, payable upon receipt of an average $5,000.00 refund check, including Earned Income Credit, for subsidizing the non-existent children.
A closer examination reveals an entire generation being imported with ancient Social Security Administration numbers but no contributions into the account over the course of their lifetime now here and collecting SSI checks while receiving full Medicare benefits at an astronomical cost to our system as healthcare providers attempt to bring these people reflective of a lifetime lived in the third world up to the American ideal of medical, dental and visual health – and all the pharmacology associated with attaining and maintaining health, too. There is a clamoring for remuneration to the estates of bracero program participants, but no complaint is heard about all the monies and healthcare being paid out in amounts easily surpassing the total lifetime wages earned nearly a century ago, per participant, per quarter if not per year, by the surviving family members of the braceros who sought and obtained SSA numbers for the entire family when here, then returned home to store them until now, when they have proven to be the single most valuable asset in the majority of the household: their cash cow is an ancient SSA card good old great-grandfather picked up when here to pick citrus back in the day.
It was a mistake to allow the federal housing inhabitants per dwelling limitations to be an unapplied guideline and not a law. The infrastructure of our society was meant to sustain the loads dictated by the guidelines, e.g.: a family of 6 in a 3 bedroom one bedroom home may be cramped, but tolerable. Homes intended for 6 now house as many as 30 inhabitants with no substantial furnishings and people sleeping wall-to-wall in living, dining and bed rooms as well as closets. This causes the wear on the infrastructure to escalate exponentially; instead of aging at the rate of 1 year per year with 6 people in it, the home ages at the rate of 5 years per year with 30 people in it. This will matter to you when you’re the person unknowingly buying the pig in a poke you think is a modest 20 year-old tract home but soon find is effectively an 80 year-old worn out hulk of a dwelling with fresh paint obscuring the reality that the toilet flushed 5 dozen times a day instead of 1 dozen, and etcetera. This assumes the original buyer lived in it within guidelines, then moved up and rented it out the following 15 years, 15(5)+5=80. The negative impacts extend to the city sewer system and beyond, too.
This is how people earning low wages are able to buy expensive vehicles; you could do it too, if you paid $40 a week for room & board! I’m not being facetious; it’s a cultural thing - just not our cultural things here where we don’t see living like that as luxury because, after all is said and done, there’s running water – hot & cold, no less, 24/7 and carpeting on the floor instead of dirt or cement and the lights always work without dimming or going out, like back home and by golly, as proven 60 times a day, the toilet flushes. Living at 500% our guidelines is a small price to pay for such luxuries, for some. It is destroying our housing stock at an alarming rate and causing a sense of resentment by those playing by the rules who observe these interlopers getting one over on the system with the only consequences being the material gains they achieve through these means.
It was a mistake to disregard the porosity of our borders. We have been breached. The enemy is within. The marauding hordes arriving daily are only surpassed by the mass exodus of funds. Recently, California was determined to be spending $9M annually on costs associated with our mushroomed illegal population. The sum of monetary transfers from California to Mexico alone was calculated at … you guessed it: $9M annually.
The Mexican mentality in general – and as in anything, there are exceptions that prove the rule – is one of entitlement and no personal responsibility. In Spanish, one does not accept responsibility for breaking a glass – I will use the example provided me in college, it has stuck with me all these year – One says, [1]“Se me quebro’ el baso”, or, [2]“Se quebro’ el baso” – These are best transliterated to: [1] The glass [went off and] broke on me, or, [2] The glass broke [itself]. This provides a fundamental difference between traditional American values and those of Mexicans. We are, again with exceptions proving the rule, a punctual, responsible and conscientious people. Mexicans are renowned for their sighs of, “Ah, manana” (Oh, tomorrow); have a language that incorporates reiteration of irresponsibility into every act; and, live day to day with the mantra, “Esta bien asi” (It’s good enough like that).
I am not a nationalist; I am a realist. This isn’t about America being the be-all, end-all on Earth with no room for others; we were made of others. But now we’re made. A trip up the coast reveals the Winchester House where poor old lady Winchester commissioned endless modifications and additions until her death. She was crazily thinking something bad would happen were she to stop. If we don’t stop all these modifications and additions and proclaim our nation as basically “Done!” there will be no society to mourn all too soon.
Joe Turner has good ideas for effecting change in our society. We should not have to pay for private educations for our children to receive a full day’s education, rather than 25 minutes English, 25 Spanish and the balance in repetition, as needed. Immersion is the way. This fully multi-lingual person says: English all the way!
The sales tax… Oh, boy! Well, I think it bears appreciating that Rachel has been the stalwart font of steadfast decorum and honest, reliable, professional and courteous service to everyone in our community since Day One, don’t you? The recent comment that “Rachel Clark sets the gold standard of excellence at City Hall” was correct, in my opinion.
That said, there is expressed concern about the sales tax being reported to her by 2 known sources as incorrect at Wal-Mart. This concern seems focused on what has happened since then. Rachel properly reported the issue to our city manager’s office. Now, as I understand it, we are waiting on the audit to arrive from The State at month’s end. It should provide factual clarification. Rachel did not sit on the information, that much is already clear; Rachel acted competently.
There is some discussion about Rachel not mentioning the 2 reports of incorrect sales tax being charged at Wal-Mart during the city council meeting when the lower than anticipated Measure Z money was discussed. Already, the matter had passed along to our city manager’s office; mentioning it would not fix anything.
I find the implication that Rachel sat on the 2 reports of incorrect sales tax being collected and that Rachel unethically remained silent about it at the council meeting in order to hide the information most misleading, offensive and reflective of the types of tactics common in the mentalities I hope the voters keep OUT of City Hall.
There is speculation about the tax money from these San Bernardino businesses with Highland addresses having gone to City of Highland for some years now. It is only speculation. No evidence has been forthcoming to substantiate the speculation. I, too, am eager to know the definitive answer about where the money has gone. I am just as eager to see life led without ridiculous speculations pandered about when we have so many pursuits that are more productive in which to invest our time and talents.
Radiant Rachel Clark Does No Wrong: KEEP HER!