Trump does not ‘act Presidential’ some say.  That’s what William DeLaArteaga writes in his recently published essay  On Discerning Trump’s Character and Presidency.It’s available on Amazon with Kindle for $3.50. DeLaArteaga says Trump is full of ‘bull-shit’, that Trump is a narcissist and not a ‘gentleman President’.
A writer for the Wall Street Journal, David Gelernter says that people hate Trump for his vulgarity, that he won’t walk away from a fight, that he’s blunt and that Trump has no ideology.  Gelernter also says some hate Trump because he does not think men and women are interchangeable and because of Trump’s love of simple ideas that may work e.g., the recent view that perhaps  a malaria drug used for 50 years can used as a preventative or cure for COVID-19.
So — why do you hate Trump? Don’t just say ‘he lies!  Or, he’s a racist! Be specific!
written by Cameron Jackson  drcameronjackson@gmail.com
The most important things in life, as you know, cannot be bought and one of those is a sense of ‘community’.  People experience  ‘community’ variously – one way is by participating in a church.
Another way is by  going to a coffee house with or without friends. So how is ‘community’ experienced variously in Aptos ? How’s  it working or not working where you live and work?
Churches — which typically meet once a week — are one way people experience ‘community’. Below are 3 examples of how ‘community’ is currently celebrated variously by three Aptos, CA churches. Some ways work better than others at creating  ‘community’.
1)  In some churches, people attending  services look like masked bandits, everyone stays carefully 6′ apart and most  leave  the premises as soon as services are over. No singing and no touching or hugging others is encouraged.
2) Church attendees connect only via the Internet with Zoom type meetings offered. All in-person church related meetings which existed prior to the pandemic have been cancelled.
3) Some thing different from the above two.   Some people wear masks  and most do not. Plenty of chit chat and ‘how are you?’ conversation afterwards with flexible social distancing. Things sort of start on time with considerable attention to the needs of children.  People recognize and welcome each other by name.  Lots of families are present with lots of children interacting informally. Consideration is given about  issues related to the pandemic with few hard and fixed rules.
Resurrection Catholic fits into category #1.  In-person services continue at Resurrection Catholic in Aptos, CA. Resurrection Catholic now  goes out of doors to celebrate community,  It celebrates services outdoors  during the week (Tues. -Fri at 10 am) and also  out of doors on weekends (Sat at 5 pm and Sun. 10:15 am). You can also attend services from home via Zoom or YouTube.  Important: For in-person services, be sure to bring and use your mask at Resurrection; you may have difficulty knowing who is standing 6 feet away from you. People leave services without much chit chat. You need to make a reservations ahead of time to attend Sat. 5 pm and Sun. 10:15 services. Click the link in the paragraph above for reservations.
St. John’s Episcopal fits into category #2.  There’s still no in-person services held by the Episcopalians in Aptos, CA.  Located across Highway #1 off State Beach Drive (next to the new skateboard park in Aptos) , the Episcopalians offer  Zoom services only  to create ‘community’. For their most recent Zoom service, click HERE.  There’s no mention in St. John’s most recent e-news  when in-person community services will occur. No in-person meetings of any kind are happening currently. Mother Tracy puts out a weekly email concerning worship services for the coming week.
Trinity Covenant Church (TCC)  fits into category #3.   Trinity Covenant offers several ways to connect on Sundays either in-person or via Zoom on the internet. Trinity Covenant, located just off highway #1 and Seascape Blvd, holds weekly service on Sundays at 10 AM.
Services ‘sort of’ start on time. Cars and people float into the church parking lot and building with the service largely starting close to 10 AM.   Well behaved children get up during the service to get paper, pencils and crayons.  People sit (some wear masks, many do not) either inside the  building, outside at patio tables, in their cars in the parking lot or hear the service from home via Zoom. There’s live music with singing and Troy Martin, the pastor, preaches from a raised area in the auditorium.  Families sit together (lots of children) with substantial social distancing in between families.  People ‘say hi’ and chat informally  after services. Newcomers are recognized and welcomed readily.  A number of church families recently returned from time together at Big Sur, CA.
And what about how ‘community’ as experience in  coffee houses in Aptos? Pacific Coffee Roasting Co comes first to mind with Norma Jean’s Coffee a close second. Yes there are plenty of other coffee houses.
The Pacific Coffee Roasting House keeps all things flexible. There are a few tables inside. You used to be able to bring your own mug and now you cannot. You have to wear a mask inside but not outside on the patio.  Located near the Aptos library, next door to Frank’s Pharmacy and within walking distance of a Best Western motel, you will hear various languages spoken on the patio outside Pacific Coffee Roasting Co.  Most people do not wear masks as they share conversation, food and company. With a Zamian’s restaurant a stone’s throw away the patio area attracts people throughout the day. It’s a popular place in Aptos, CA to experience ‘a sense of community’ without masks.
written by Cameron Jackson  DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
Example:Â Â Today 7/31 the Democrats blocked extension of renewal of federal enhanced unemployment benefits at $200 a week.
What you can do?  Write your representatives — almost all Democrats in CA — and ask them to explain why two-thirds of regular pay is not enough given prior Democrat proposals that set virus sick pay leave and family medial leave at two-thirds regular pay. Why? The real answer is that Democrats are blocking economic revival. The economy contracted about 1/3 in the second quarter of 2020 — the largest ever contraction.  It must be ‘we the people’ who open the economy that get people back to work. Time to speak up.
 Second,  know that health advisor  Dr. Farci is in the tank in support of the Democrats ‘do nothing’ approach when he tells Congressman Jordan that the public should ‘avoid all crowds’ but won’t comment whether the government should control crowds of protesters. So, crowds of protests are OK for Farci but not others. See below:
So what can you and I do to help get children back to school?  Parents can say ‘no more unionized instruction’ of their children’ in government schools paid for by  required taxation. Encourage competition by forming more charter schools and attending private schools. It’s competition that brings costs down and improves quality. We readily see how competition drives down costs at the grocery stores and it’s also true for other costs.
What about re-opening the churches and faith organizations? There’s a piece in the WSJ today how believing that life has meaning helps individuals thrive. There’s lots of research that supports that view.
What might people do?   Does your church or where you work support the marxist organization Black Lives Matters.com (BLM)?  Look at the BLM website and you will find it opposes the nuclear family and seeks to de-fund the police.  Why not suggest to your church or work place that they hold  a discussion of the above listed WSJ article that supports capitalism and entrepreneurship compared with what’s supported by the Black Lives Matters.com website?
You can see from what’s going on in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington that what starts out as peaceful protests are  hijacked by Antifa and Black Lives Matter folks.  Per the videos, these ‘protesters’ are destroying property and doing violence to people.
One Episcopal priest, Sara Fischer, who has been attending the protests in Portland  has this to say:  [Egan Millard is an assistant editor and reporter for Episcopal News writes the following re Sara Fisher.]
“I’m there out of compassion and concern for all the protesters. And I think the first time I went down there I thought, well, nobody’s going to throw tear gas at a silver-haired white lady in a collar. And it turns out that there’s so many people there, the feds don’t really discriminate.â€
The below quote is from Egan Millard, an assistant editor and reporter for Episcopal News Service. His email: emillard@episcopalchurch.org.
“The Rev. Sara Fischer doesn’t know what to expect next, but she sees it as part of her duty as a priest to protect those who are in danger and support their message, regardless of the ways in which they protest. As much as she would prefer to see completely nonviolent protests, she understands why that’s not the case.”
“I think that the church’s role is to protect and defend protesters, to be present, to show up,â€Â Sara Fischer said to Egan Millard. Â
Aptos Psychologist:  The protests in Portland and Seattle started because of the murder of George Floyd by a white policeman. That was the end of May, a couple months ago. What’s going on now has morphed into violence against people and vandalism and destruction of homes and businesses.  Video footage night after night shows that Antifa and Black Lives Matter are central players to the disorders.
It’s Democrat mayors and Democrat governors  who permit the chaos to continue. The public must let their representatives and the media [typically in the tank for the Democrats] know what you think of the continued violence in Democrat run cities against person and property.
Harmed among others are the black families and black small businesses living in Democrat run cities who are caught in the cross fire and experience the violence.  Doing prolonged violence and vandalism  is not the way to remember the murder of George Floyd.
This young soldier in 1942, shortly after he and his family were interned, joined the Army’s famous 442 Regimental Combat Team and two years later saved his platoon by destroying the enemy’s machine gun nest and covering the withdrawal of his platoon.  In 1944, Nakamura lost his life to save fellow American lives.
Nakamura was the first Army volunteer from Minidoka Relocation Center (an internment camp) to be killed in action. In 2000, President Clinton presented 22 war heroes with Medals of Honor; these soldiers  had been denied Medals of Honor at the time on account of their Asian ancestry.
Use hydroexchloroquine as a preventative for COVID-19?
Dr. Stella Immanuel of Houstonsays that she has given the drug for COVID-19 related issues to 300 patients without problems.
Where can people get it?  You can buy from Canada! Where made?  It’s made in Great Britain!  The cost for the generic is about a dollar a pill.  Go to CanadaPharmacyOnlineÂ
Hydroxychloroquine 200 mg Tablets
Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine)
Plaquenil Information
Order Plaquenil online through one of the largest online Canadian international pharmacies at a big discount.
We currently have the brand Plaquenil from Canada manufactured by Sanofi Aventis.
The generic Hydroxychloroquine comes from the UK also known as Quinoric and is manufactured by Bristol.
Plaquenil is available in the strength of 200mg tablets. Customers who order Plaquenil may also purchase Methotrexate.
Aptos Psychologist:  Let people have access to information about possible ways to prevent COVID-19. There’s doctors out there who are convinced that hydroexchloroquine does work both as a preventative and for treatment of COVID-19 in conjunction with zinc and other medications. Front line doctors need the flexibility to make decisions with their patients as how to proceed.    drcameronjackson@gmail.com
Want to prevent getting COVID-19? Consider taking that anti-malaria drug.  The one which President Trump takes.
A group of frontline MDs recommend for prevention of COVID-19 that  you take a low dosage —200 mg  — of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine twice a week for prevention of COVID-19 . Very important, also take the mineral zinc.
This was one of the recomendations of a group of frontline medical doctors during a press conference in Washington D.C. on 7/22/2020.
 Hydroxychloroquine  is viewed as a life-saving medication for both prevention and treatment of COVID-19 by these M.Ds. Â
A group of MD’s explained why they support the anti-malaria drug for prevention and as a possible cure for COVID-19 during a press conference 7/28/2020.
Their main point is that the public should have access to information and make up their own mind — not be spoon fed one side of the story by the press and supposed medical experts. Dr.  Fauci — who has been in his job since 1984 – strongly supported the anti-malaria drug 15 years ago; now he opposes it. Why the flip flop? Â
Dr.Faui has not seen an actual patient for treatment in 20 years; these medical doctors say that Dr. Fauci needs to meet regularly with actual MDs who are on the front lines treating the virus.
 Dr. Emanuel — on Twitter – was one of the doctors excoriating Dr. Fauci for being out of touch with front line doctors who treat patients. Dr. Emanuel said she has treated 300 patients — many with co-morbid conditions (diabetes, obesity, heart) and all of them were helped by use of the anti-malaria medication in conjunction with other meds.   Â
Gist of what these frontline MD’s said:
Facts: Several randomized studies show no health benefits for the drug. One was in the New England Journal of Medicne. That patients treated do show improvement is also a fact. The drug works. This drug has been used variously, e.g. for rheumatoid arthritis, lupis and malaria. Why limit the use of the is drug by MDs?  Doctors who do the treatment need to have flexibility to use this drug.  So say this group of doctors.
Pay attention to deaths caused by the virus — and ignore the case numbers which are irrelevant.  The media focuses on case numbers which don’t matter.  It’s deaths that matter and  numbers of deaths by COVID-19 are hard to get.
Children need and must get  back to school. Children are the least affected and young children don’t pass it on.
Unions are stopping the opening of the schools. One of the MDs, Dr. James Tadaro, who said he was from California said that it’s the unions which keep the schools closed.  The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in CA seeks to defund the police and to put a moratorium on charter schools. Dr. Todaro is on Twitter and has a website titled Medicine Uncensored.
Where to purchase the anti-malaria drugHydroxychloroquine.  It is sold over the counter in many parts of the world including Iran and Indonesia. It has been used safely for 50 years. It is as safe as asprin say these doctors. Some pharmacies are interfering with MD’s prescription of the drug they say.
What doseage hydroxychloroquine  as a preventaitve?   For prevention of COVID-19, take 200 mg (only) twice a week and also take  the mineral zinc. Your lungs are depleted of zinc they say.
And now Squarespace  – the website for these doctors –  REMOVED THEIR WEBSITE TODAY!
Tech giants Twitter, YouTube etc., are REFUSING to broadcast information on the use of an anti-malaria drug. Â
written by Cameron Jackson  DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
Remember Jussie Smollett?  He staged a hate crime and lied to police.
Hate hoaxer Jussie Smollett was indicted in February on 6 charges of disorderly conduct by a special prosecutor in Chicago more than one year after he falsely claimed two white Trump supporters attacked him with bleach and put a rope around his neck.
It turned out Jussie Smollett paid two Nigerian brothers $3,500 to help him carry out the hate hoax.
The “two white Trump supporters†were black Nigerians in white face. Jussie later claimed that drugs were responsible.Â
This weekend Jussie Smollett was out protesting in front of Trump Tower in New York City.
The Democratic Party platform has been published in draft form, and it is a beauty.  It is largely an attack on white people.
The Democratic Party platform mentions whites or whiteness 15 times, never in a positive light. Notice below the focus on one reference to alleged white supremacy:
Median incomes are lower and poverty rates are higher for Black Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and some Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, compared to median white households. Â
But wait! Notice how they tried to slip that one by you: “some Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.†Why only “some,†in a land defined by white supremacy? There is, of course, a story here, one that the Democrats will never tell. These are how various ethnic groups ranked by median  income in the 2018 census. Whites come in 17th.
America is the ‘land of opportunity’ for all sorts of people of various shades of color and coming from all over the world. Look at their incomes:Â
The Seattle police chief informs business owners that they are on their own against rioters. The city council has tied her hands. The police do not have the tools to combat mob violence . So who will protect against mob violence? Â
The letter is a wonder to behold — a first for civil society in a modern industrialized country. Law enforcement telling the people they are sworn to protect that government won’t let them do their jobs and that any damage done to the business owners’ property isn’t the fault of the police.
Please also know that the City Council Ordinance 119805 Crowd Control Tool goes into effect this weekend on Sunday, July 26, 2020. This ordinance bans Seattle Police officers the use of less lethal tools, including pepper spray that is commonly used to disperse crowds that have turned violent. Simply put, the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd.
It is important to bring to your attention that yesterday, I sent the City Council a letter ensuring them that as the Chief of Police, I have done my due diligence of informing them numerous times of the foreseeable impact of this ordinance on upcoming events. The letter is attached for your reference.
For these reasons, Seattle Police will have an adjusted deployment in response to any demonstrations this weekend – as I will never ask our officers to risk their personal safety to protect property without the tools to do so in a safe way.
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Firenze Sage:   Welcome Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp
Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, who  claimed San Diego Bay for Spain, may be permanently scrubbed from Cabrillo College. That depends on what the sub-committee brings back to the full Board of Trustees and on how the full Board votes.
Madison Reach, who now attends U.C. Berkeley, took anthropology 6 at Cabrillo College. This class is offered in the Spring every other year.  Reach says Cabrillo is a ‘documented serial rapist’ and that his name is ‘offensive’ to her.
So who taught Anthropology 6 at Cabrillo?  What evidence was presented to students that Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, was a ‘serial rapist’ 400 years ago in 1542? Google his name and one finds that  Juan Cabrillo, was Spanish, wealthy, married to a Beatrice and that he had two sons. Cabrillo missed discovering San Francisco Bay, got as far north as Point Reyes and died due to an infection in his ankle while protecting his men under attack from natives. Oh dear — fighting with the natives caused his death. How can we find out more?
How to find out more about Anthropology 6 which is offered at Cabrillo College?   Kristin Wilson is head of the department (831 477 3253). She probably knows who teaches the course on native CA cultures. Whether there’s ‘documented’ evidence that Cabrillo was a ‘serial rapist’ is …. that seems unlikely.
There are 7 Districts, Santa Cruz is in District 4, Aptos is in District 6 and the City of Watsonville has it’s own District, District 5.
The next meeting of the Board of Trustees is August 3, 2020 in Watsonville Center. The following Sept. 14 there’s a meeting in Aptos at the Sesnon House at 6 pm.
Madison Reach was the guest of the Saturday Special on AM 1080 on 7/25/2020. The Saturday Special, intended as a forum for expression of ideas, is hosted every Saturday morning from 10-12 noon by Michael Zwerling.
written by Cameron Jackson  drcameronjackson@gmail.com
So why do you hate Trump? Be specific!
