Monterey Bay Forum

Obama’s federal agency NOAA is no Noah’s Ark.

Pronounced like Noah, the federal agency NOAA stands for National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency. NOAA’s funding is authorized by the Department of Commerce.

Per how NOAA recently acts as judge, jury and prosecutor against people using the resources of Monterey Bay — huge fines for jet ski users and criminal charges against a biologist for feeding large fish — it may be the right time that the public jerked NOAA’s funding to a standstill?

Interestingly, Democrat congressman Sam Farr refuses to comment on NOAA and has refused to go on a local radio program, KSCO 1080 radio, to discuss NOAA.

Sam Farr is the same Democrat congressman who, when he held four Town Meetings on health care, stated at the beginning that he was there to tell the public that he was going to vote for Obama Care. Sam Farr was not there to listen – he was there to tell the public what he was going to do.

Let’s look at the considerable differences between Noah’s Ark and NOAA’s Mission:

You know the Biblical story: Under God’s direction, Noah built an Ark and put on board two of every kind of animal. When the world flooded, the animals were safe on board the high seas until, finally, a little bird brought back a leaf. The leaf signaled to Noah that land was near and life could go on. And God gave to people the rainbow as a sign that never again would God flood the earth with water.

Today we have NOAA to save the animals, fish, birds and everything from the bottom of the sea all the way to the sun. What a huge charge. And what huge powers turned over to Obama’s political appointees who run NOAA.
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Federal agency National Oceanographic & Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) recently pressed criminal charges and has levied huge fines against a nationally known biologist for feeding large fish.

Also, NOAA recently levied enormous fines — which keep going up — against two persons using jet skis to save surfers in Monterey Bay.

The overall issue is that a federal agency (NOAA) under Obama and with the blessing of local congressman Sam Farr now controls access of the public to use of Monterey Bay. Do you accept this control?

Because the jet ski users are contesting the charges, NOAA’s response has been to double and triple the fines. Per discussion by Dr. Bill on radio 1080, NOAA is acting as judge, jury and prosecutor and not allowing any defense.

Sam Farr, congressman for the Monterey and Santa Cruz, CA area, refused to come on a local radio show Saturday, Jan. 14 and discuss his views of NOAA and the legal charges against people using the Monterey Bay for work and play. Sam Farr’s office likewise did not contact the radio station. Farr’s offices were contacted repeatedly without success.

“Put a sign on your car, in your window and on a telephone pole telling Sam Farr what you want” says Dr. Bill on 1080 Radio. “Or just write, Sam Farr — Farr Out!”

NOAA’s senior positions are filled with political appointees who push for the political agenda of the current administration. Dr. Bill refers to NOAA as the “green Gestapo”.

Per the 1080 radio show Jan. 11, 2012 NOAA spent millions of Obama Stimulus money on a new building close to the beach at Asilomar CA state park in Monterey, CA. NOAA will not permit any non-native plants in the area and has built a building which, to put it mildly from the comments of listeners to the raido show, does not blend into the environment. Check out the NOAA building next time you drive along the Asilomar state beach beach in Monterey.

For more information on NOAA, congressman Sam Farr’s lack of response to air his views on NOAA and current fining of the biologist and jet ski users contact
www.ksco.com

 

 

Sam Farr is one of seventy plus socialists elected to the United States Congress.  Below is a letter to Sam from a citizen in his district:

Sam, tear up your socialist card.  Our nation is at a crossroads.  The 2012 elections will be about ideology.   Will American slide further into socialism?     Or will America return to  the conservative values of our Founding Fathers and Mothers?

Socialists  typically  believes that government is the solution, that everything good comes from government and that all belongs to government who  dispenses it wisely. Socialists believe that government creates jobs and wealth.

Conservatives believes in limited government, that federalism rightly limits the powers of each branch of government,  and that under God individuals have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — with the least interference as possible from government.

Sam,  please support and vote for fiscal responsibility.

Just as families must live within their means, so too  must nations.  Look at Greece.

If a family overspends by $5,000 it cannot start next year’s budget with an increase of 5 K.  The same  goes  for nations.  Therefore Sam ,  please vote to stop all automatic government increases.

All families must live on a budget.  So must America.  Yet months and months go by and the Democrats refuse to make a budget.

Sam, Please  change your ways and support and vote for a balanced budget.

When a family’s income drops their expenses too must drop.  The same for nations.  Growth is flat.  We must cut government spending.   How?

Sam, please support and vote for substantial cuts and no increases in taxes.  How?  Read what Paul Ryan wrote as to how to make substantial fiscal changes.  They make sense.

Why wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in on Obama-Care.  De-fund it now. If the government has the power to require every citizen to purchase  X,  then there is no limit to  what the government can require.  That is precisely the path of socialism  that lies ahead.

So, again  I ask  Sam Farr:  Will you tear up your socialist card?  And, join a tea party or start one?  America is at a crossroads, right?  

 letter  to Sam Farr from  Cameron Jackson, Monterey Bay Forum, POB 1972, Aptos, CA 95001-1972

email address:   DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

Cameron Jackson DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

Finally in July, 2010 the Obama administration raised the loan guarantee rate for SBA loans from 75% to 90%. And, banks started to make more SBA loans to small business. The The Penny Ice Creamery in Santa Cruz, CA got such a loan. Taxpayer money will pay the bank back 90 percent of the loan if the ice cream store fails. Try out the ice cream and come back to comment. The Penny Icecreamery is located at 913 Ceder Street in Santa Cruz. 831 204-2533. What say you — Is this the way to create jobs?

from the website for The Penny Icecreamery:
“At Penny, she’s making artisanal ice cream from scratch, and the plan is to offer nine different flavors a day. Everything will be local, organic, seasonal, etc. And as you can see from the ice cream photo to the right, there will definitely be some Manresa-esque flairs.

The menu will change very frequently — the Wednesday farmers’ market is a block away — but to give you an idea of the offerings, here’s a current version of the nine flavors, as described by Davis (speaking with a blackberry vanilla popsicle in hand):

1.Tahitian vanilla
2.Dark chocolate sorbet
3.Fresh mint and cocoa nib
4.Coffee toffee
5.Blackberry corn, made with corn grown at Baker’s three-acre farm
6.Caramel
7.Bourbon bacon chocolate
8.Brown butter-spiced pecan with chili spice
9.Raspberry rose sorbet
In support of a Santa Cruz neighbor, Penny will use Verve Coffee for the coffee toffee, the affogatos and other coffee-related items. On the rest of the menu, expect rotating things like the aforementioned popsicle, floats (like a melon sorbet scoop with cucumber granita in a cilantro mint soda), sundaes, malts, tiny toasted cinnamon meringues, and a very intriguing pate de fruit. But again, it will change regularly.

“Another cool tidbit is that Penny is a licensed pasteurizer — one of the few ice cream shops with that distinction in the entire area (Ici in Berkeley is one) — which means they’re really making ice cream from scratch.

So — what do these luscious looking ice cream cones cost?

And does America need jobs created with 90% guaranteed loans? The Housing mess happened in part because the government gave money to put people into houses that they could not afford. Are SBA 90% guaranteed loans part and parcel of the same problem? DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

Did you listen to KSCO and the candidates for Congress last Sat. 10-12? Lots of people called in with good questions.

Opposed to Democrat incumbent Sam Farr are a number of candidates including Republican Jeff Taylor.

My question did not get asked.

My question for Sam Farr: The membership roster of the American Socialist Party shows you, Sam Farr, as a member.

If that is true, >why are you a socialist? If that is not true, what have you done to remove your name?

The gist of what I did hear on KSCO: Sam Farr spoke proudly of ObamaCare. Sam Farr lauded his accomplishments to provide government programs to help people.

I wonder whether Sam Farr makes much attempt to listen to his constituents. I don’t think so. For example, Sam Farr said that — in the last 17 years he has been in office representing Santa Cruz and Monterey — he had never heard a Kay Zwerling editorial.

Therefore, I don’t think Sam Farr listens to KSCO — one of the few independent radio stations in northern California.

So what did the other candidates say? The other four candidates sounded more similar than different. All four strongly oppose out of control spending. All four discussed ways how to grow the private sector and create private sector jobs.

The one woman, Mary Larkin, says on her website: “… the current administration seems to have our economy on the fast-track towards destruction and none of us can sit idly by any longer.”

As a conservative independent. I am at odds with all of Sam Farr’s comments per the KSCO discussion. And I liked largely everything that the other four candidates said. So how to choose?

Think of the decision how to vote akin to choosing an ice cream. For me, Sam Farr is akin to licorice which I cannot stand. I could never eat a licorice ice cream cone.

On the other hand, I like strawberry, chocolate, vanilla and mint. Those voices — a Libertarian, a Green Party a Republican and a write-in — all sound good. I liked what I heard from all of them.

How to choose? Like the two basics — Vanilla and Chocolate — the United States has a two party system.

Though I certainly liked what I heard write-in Ron Kabat say on KSCO, I wish as a Tea Party movement supporter he could support Republican Party candidate Jeff Taylor.

What Ron Kabat says on his website:
“My PROPOSAL –> Members of Congress should voluntarily accept a 15% wage cut until our national deficit begins to decrease for three years AND our national unemployment rate falls to 6%….”

I tried to contact Ron Kabat on his web site but there is no contact form, no email address and and no way to leave a message. That sends a message I dislike — it is hard to connect to someone who wants to represent us.

The votes for Kabat, the Libertarian and the Green Party are great as a Custer’s Last Stand but not likely to remove Sam Farr from office.

Let’s hope we get real change: Repeal ObamaCare. Repeal all the bail outs. Cut the deficit. Grow the private sector. Cut taxes. Promote small business. Cut bureaucracy and red tape.

To remove Sam Farr from office, a Democrat and member of the American Socialist Party, - can third party candidates and Tea Party movement supporters agree on what they have in common? Can they support one candidate who can defeat the Democrat “achievements” of the last two years?

What do you say? How best to vote out a Democratic incumbent who has been in office the last 17 years? Let’s get all the third party and Tea Party candidates to join in support of one candidate: Jeff Taylor.

So how is the write-in in Alaska doing? Sarah Palin calls it Operation Chaos. (more…)

Is Sam Farr, Congressman for the 17th District, another political “elite” like Obama – who knows best what’s good for you? Is Sam Farr in or out of sync with your American values?

Actions speak louder than words at times. Let’s look at Sam Farr’s actions over his lifetime. Is Sam Farr another “elite”?

Look at Sam’s background, education, job history and experience.

Where did Sam Farr grow up and where does he live? Sam Farr grew up and lives in Carmel, California. Carmel is the most expensive, “old money” area in the 17th district. Yes, there are two Safeways in the Carmel Valley area. Who does Sam Farr rub shoulders with living in Carmel, CA? Does he hear the “pop, pop, pop” sounds of gun shots that are frequently heard in Salinas, CA? What has Sam Farr done to reduce gang violence?

How was Sam Farr educated? No public school experience for Sam Farr. No rubbing shoulders with all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds. No military experience where one must deal with all sorts of people. Sam Farr attended only private universities, i.e., Santa Clara University and Monterey Institute of International Studies.

3) How broad is Sam Farr’s job history? Sam Farr has only worked for the government. After 2 years in the Peace Corp, Sam Farr went to work in Sacramento, CA. Connected through his father, Sam Farr worked 10 years doing budget work for the California Assembly. For the last 17 years Sam Farr has represented the Santa Cruz – Monterey area for the 17th District.

If you only know government then the government is the best and only solution for all problems. And that appears to be Sam Far’s modus operandi.

4) What are Sam Farr’s accomplishments in 17 years as a Congressman? Per Wikipedia, thanks to Sam Farr there now is an ocean advisor in the President’s cabinet. That accomplishment happened in 2008.

Yes, taking care of our oceans and Mother Earth is important. Is it best done by more government bureaucracy? Sam Farr thinks so.

Oct. 8, 2009 Peggy Noonon writes Revolt of the Accountants, a perceptive article about elites and why Americans increasingly dislike – or hate — elites. Read below: (more…)

DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

People like Sam Farr, Rep for the 17th District — per how they vote — believe that government can do a better job making decisions for you than you can. Given the last 18 months of government by Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Sam Farr –now is the time to say, “Stop!”

That view — that people should accept what Representatives tell them — is what I took away from listening to Sam Farr during the Health Care debates.

Now Sam Farr says that the Recovery Act has helped. The following is from a recent meeting in San Juan Bautista. Many people said No! to Sam Farr. For more, read the following: (more…)

Dear House Representative Sam Farr,

I listened to the Town Meetings which  you held.  You were adamantly for a  government option, Single Payer plan.  You did not listen to the folks who want to keep their own health plan and  do not want more government control.  You kept saying “oh, you can keep your plan …” (more…)