Put all your kitty’s cat litter in a securely tied bag. Make sure it goes to a land fill and not into Monterey Bay for otters to feed on.
There’s a new Santa Cruz, CA website dedicated to Otter-ly information. Check out seaotters.com based in Santa Cruz, CA.
To get off the Endangered Species List, sea otters must grow from 2,700 to 3,090. Their numbers have stayed steady instead of growing in recent years. Scientists wonder why. Various pollutants may contribute.
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“Southern sea otters have been listed as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act since 1977. While California sea otters have made a substantial recovery, decades of protection haven’t helped their population bounce back as dramatically as hoped. Annual surveys currently peg the California sea otter population at about 2,700 individuals, short of the minimum of 3,090 for 3 years running needed for delisting from the Endangered Species Act. Their numbers have hovered at 2,800 otters in recent years, and the current estimate represents a population dip instead of growth.
“What is behind this population plateau? Scientists have pinned the cause on too many deaths of mature adults, especially females who should be producing pups. However, understanding why otters are dying is far from straightforward. No single factor jumps out as the most important cause of California sea otter deaths. Rather, scientists have discovered that otters encounter a complex and deadly cocktail in contaminated waters, and many are dying from the combined onslaught of diseases, parasites, and toxic compounds.
TSA & pimp
TSA manager holds down a second job as a pimp.
Montgomery County Police have arrested a TSA manager for running a prostitution ring out of a Silver Spring hotel. Bryant Livingston was arrested at his job at Dulles International Airport where he worked as a morning shift manager.
Hotel employees were suspicious of activity and called police.
When Montgomery County Police arrived and knocked on the hotel room door they saw three naked women in a room and four men. One man admitted to police he had arrived with the promise of sex for $100.
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TSA swabs child's body
The 3 yr old [ a possible jihadist according to TSA] in a wheel chair due to a broken leg might have a bomb hidden in his lap. No bomb found? Then keep checking the child’s body.
A vacation in the Magic Kingdom should be enough to make a child giddy with excitement, but one young boy was left trembling with fear after he was subjected to an invasive TSA pat-down.
The three-year-old child and parents were at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. They were boarding a flight to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Despite constant assurances from his father that ‘everything is OK’, the three year old boy physically trembles with fear and asks his parents to hold his hand. The terrified boy was swabbed on his hands and under his shirt for explosive residue. But TSA, what about the child’s cast? No swab stuck down inside the cast? How about checking inside his ears? [TSA literature says only hands are swabbed.]
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Well, if you cannot find a bomb then look for the residue.
hommade dolmas
Your church provide homemade food to less fortunate and hungry? Homemade food not OK says federal and some city governments. What’s happening in New York: No more home cooked food for the homeless of New York.
The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police†to new depths. Bloomberg now blocks food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.
In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.
For over a decade, Glenn Richter and his wife, Lenore, have led a team of food-delivery volunteers from Ohab Zedek, the Upper West Side Orthodox congregation. Shelters must turn away synagogue goodies like gefilte fish and pastries, thanks to Bloomberg.
They’ve brought freshly cooked, nutrient-rich surplus foods from synagogue events to homeless facilities in the neighborhood. (Disclosure: I know the food is so tasty because I’ve eaten it — I’m an OZ member.) The practice of donating such surplus food to homeless shelters is common among houses of worship in the city.
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So here we go. only the Govt can provide. jaj48@aol.com
L.A. hates Hollywood? Airways must ban ‘racist & sexist slurs’ says California L.A. council member Jan Perry.
The L.A. member introduced legislation this week that would call upon media companies to ensure “on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs†on radio and other broadcasts.
Members of the Black Media Alliance, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Korean-American Bar Association, and American Indians in Film and Television were on hand to voice their support for the pro
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Do these folks ever watch the movies and TV that the studios they need to tax produce?
hugging ban Win a sports game and cannot hug? Ban on hugging at middle school in New Jersey has many parents opposed to this school policy.
Last week, what was called excessive hugging and physical contact by sixth and eighth graders prompted the principal to come on the loud speaker. He declared a ban on hugging, according to published reports. The Superintendent for schools later supported the principal’s actions.
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homeowners dance to EPA's tune How about a huge haircut for EPA which, thanks to Obama, makes homeowners dance to EPA’s tune? How? Cut off funding.
Why not cut some federal agencies drastically!
In May, 2011, the Obama administration expanded the EPA’s interpretation of the Clean Waters Act. The Clean Waters Act was meant to prevent pollution in “navigable waters”
Now, thanks to Obama, th EPA asserts control over “wetlands”. “Wetlands” can include property near a lake.
In 2005, the Sacketts bought a small property in an Idaho residential neighborhood intending to build a home. In oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Deputy Solicitor General Steward revealed the Sacketts were liable for $85,000 a day until restoring the property to its original condition for 1) violating the Clean Waters Act and 2) for violating the compliance order.
Supreme Court Justice Alito asked, If you related the facts of this case as they come to us to an ordinary homeowner, don’t you think most ordinary homeowners would say this kind of thin can’t happen in the United States?”
The High Court’s narrow ruling in Sackett v EPA [Supremes 9, EPA 0] does not provide relief to the thousands of homeowners affected by the Clean Water Act Most property owners continue to dance to the EPA’s tune. For more about the EPA and the Clean Water Act see the WSJ, Thursday, March 22, 2012.
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Wake up, Mr. Holder! Photo ID’s at voting polls prevent voter fraud.
[U.S. Justice sues Texas and South Carolina for requiring voter IDs at polling places.] photo IDs prevent fraud
Mr. Holder, your anti photo-ID policies harm all U.S. residents — legal and illegal. Picture IDs make it possible for illegal and legal residents to enter the stream of commerce. Picture IDs prevent other types of fraud besides voter ID fraud.
Picture IDs keep people safe and prevent crime. Increasingly, typical Americans must show picture IDs in all sorts of situations.
For example, when you go the pharmacy you must produce a picture ID to get certain medications. When you pay by credit card – if the credit card says ‘produce picture ID’ — the clerk will examine a photo ID before getting a signature.
A couple years ago U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to prosecute Afro-American Black Panthers standing with clubs outside polling places.
Now, Holder’s prosecution of states which require photo IDs in fact promotes fraud, not prevents fraud. Mr. Holder is not interested in reducing discrimination, his stated intention. It looks like Mr. Holder is far more interested in stuffing ballot boxes with Democrat Party votes. And voter fraud is the way to do so.
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written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
COPA franchise feesReligious ‘franchise’ fees? Yes.
You want to start a McDonald? You pay a franchise fee.
You want to spread the ‘food’ of Saul Alinsky, progressive who wrote Rules for Radicals?
You will pay a ‘franchise’ fee to spread the progressive ‘gospel’ of Saul Alinsky via COPA and other similar organizations with different names and same philosophy. The money paid to COPA goes out of state to Chicago, Illinois. Home of community organizer Obama. Mmmm.
Why cough up big bucks to founders of COPA, an out of state organization, for franchise costs? This does not make sense.
Why pay Illinois for how to do community organizing in a California community? Do we really need more of Obama type organizers here in Santa Cruz and Monterey? What say you.
Time for church & other religious organization members to ask why….
Ask why. Time for local church and other religious organizations to ask why their local Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay area religious organization pay up to $10,000 a year in COPA ‘franchise’ costs to out of state Illinois & no buy-in by church members?
If you want the ‘real answers’ why the franchise costs paid to an out of CA community organization ( in Chicago, Illinois) then ask the original founders of COPA.
Wonder who? There were three persons who started COPA: the driving force was a Catholic sister/nun who runs a Watsonville, CA women/ children care facility, an Aptos, CA Lutheran minister who has since died.. and …
1) What COPA did many years ago was to get ‘buy in’ from the local leaders of local churches & other religious organizations.
2) Then COPA said to the general Santa Cruz/ Monterey CA community that all the members of these organization supported COPA views.
3) Now COPA uses those churches to hand out material and tell members how to vote.
COPA is smart. People who go to a local church or other religious organization may not want to ‘argue’ about COPA with those who provide spiritual assistance. More info follows below.
DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
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Political Community Organizing through Places of Worship
By Freedom Advocates
Monday, 02 November 2009
Question: “I have just learned that my Monterey Bay Area church has given large sums of money to a political Interfaith Network organization called COPA. COPA stands for Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action. What is COPA?
Answer: COPA is a member of Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) which was founded by Saul Alinsky in the 1940’s. Alinsky authored two books that are used as manuals by socialist and communist change agents – Reveille for Radicals in 1946 and Rules for Radicals in 1971.
It is a serious concern that the money I’ve been giving to my church is being used for political and radical ideological purposes without my knowledge or authorization. There are many Interfaith Networks operating under different names throughout the country and most of them like COPA, are members of IAF.
Answer: In their own words, Industrial Areas Foundation helps build broad-based, non-partisan organizations of dues-paying member congregations, schools, unions, business associations, and non-profits committed to building power for sustainable social and economic change.
Alinsky in his book writings puts it like this,
You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments. Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
Believing that the ends justify the means, Alinksy stated that,
In action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind.
So churches are being used for political purposes rather than for spiritual reasons. COPA affiliated churches use congregational capital to influence local politicians and intensely advocate for so-called “affordable housing†developments built by well paid so-called, “non-profit†developers.
The reality is that our money is funding an undisclosed massive subsidy for building projects benefiting individuals who are very ineffective at cost containment. This should give pause to anyone thinking that COPA and IAF are organizations out to help the downtrodden. Those downtrodden are the means, the pawns, in COPA’s game plan.
Where was I when these political shenanigans were being discussed? Was it part of a sermon or simply handled as a financial transaction behind closed doors? It’s alarming that I and my fellow congregants missed the discussion about morphing my church into an instrument of socialist/fascist economic change. This is antithetical to what I believe in.
Your church may be doing this too. Go to the IAF Industrial Areas Foundation “affiliates†page. Click on your region on the left side of the page. In our area, COPA was formerly known as CCIS – Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors.
Congregations across the country find themselves attached to COPA-like organizations with names like Washington Interfaith Network (WIN), Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (CHANGE), Tying Nashville Together (TNT) or Southeastern Wisconsin Common Ground.
Most of us never saw this happening. We trust our places of worship and attend in order to honor God and invigorate our spiritual beliefs. Now we discover that an outside political action group is working insidiously to infiltrate our church and undermine our ethical and spiritual structure.
COPA/IAF is clear that their mission is to train parishioners in community organizing tactics in order to achieve a political result through lobbying. Sound familiar? ACORN has been in the news recently for exploiting poor neighborhoods through the use of misleading promises used in community organizing and lobbying. ACORN targets neighborhoods. COPA and IAF target places of worship and unsuspecting parishioners.
COPA/IAF are coming into our churches and synagogues, misleading many of our ministers and other leaders by having them support COPAand IAF politics.
Is your church or temple involved with an interfaith congregation network and IAF? If so, you need to ask:
Is my church a member of a network or organization that supports IAF? What is the organization called?
If yes, why did our church leadership decide to join?
What was the commitment made to the organization?
Has the pastor, minister, rabbi or other spiritual leader been informed about the true nature of Interfaith Networks and Congregation Based Community Organizations?
Has the congregation been informed?
Call to action – Let your church know how you feel about affiliations with political and ideological groups such as IAF and COPA.
Political Community Organizing through Places of Worship by Freedom Advocates
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Is Bill Maher [Ma-her] generally anti-woman? For years, Maher makes vitriolic remarks about conservative women. Is it because of his name? ask Bill Ma-her
Look at the spelling of Maher’s name! Yes, we are having a bit of fun with him. And he well deserves it.
Recently Democrat woman distance themselves from Bill Ma-her… Bill Maher gave one million to Democrat President Obama.
Both Ma and Her are words for women.
Does the spelling of his name affect his behavior towards woman? Maybe.
Bill Ma-her’s anti woman comments over the years towards Sarah Palin and other conservative woman now backfire. Now Democrat woman want to distance themselves from Bill Ma-her.
See below news that woman in the Democrat Party distance themselves from Bill Ma-her.
“Twenty-five conservative women’s groups in Alabama are calling on the Alabama Democratic Party to cancel comedian Bill Maher’s appearance at their upcoming fundraiser. “The Alabama Democratic Party, hoping to cash in on Bill Maher’s recent generosity to the president, is jumping on the Bill Maher bandwagon,†Stephanie Holden Smith of the Alabama chapter of Concerned Women for America said. “Conservative women from Concerned Women for America, Tea Party groups, and Republican Women’s groups are uniting to call for the Alabama Democratic Party to cancel their upcoming fundraiser focused around Bill Maher’s appearance in Huntsville on March 17.†The Alabama Federation of Republican Women, CWA and a slew of county and city Republican women’s groups have come together in an effort to push Maher, whom they believe to be misogynistic, out of the event for his “hateful rhetoric†against female conservatives. Representatives from the groups will be protesting the event on the Alabama State House steps Thursday. “The Democrat Party of Alabama is showing their true values and lack of a moral compass by promoting a man like Bill Maher,†Tricia Whatley of the Azalea City Republican Women told TheDC. “They speak of a factious war on women from the conservatives, but commission a man like that for a fundraiser. He is a confirmed bachelor that has been sued by past girl friends for racial and emotionally abusive remarks made during the relationship. He obviously doesn’t see a value in womankind. What kind of self loathing woman would pay to be a part of that oppressive environment in the name of fundraising?†CWA launched a petition and web video earlier in the week urging President Barack Obama to return Maher’s $1 million contribution to his Super PAC. CWA has also created a website to reinforce their ends rejectmaher.com. Their petition and calls for an end to Maher’s involvement in Democratic endeavors follows the President’s criticism of radio host Rush Limbaugh for derogatory comments he made about a 30-year-old Georgetown Law student “President Obama’s words about public discourse are beginning to look like typical Washington hypocrisy, as he is criticizing Rush Limbaugh on the one hand and taking money from a vile misogynistic comedian on the other,†said Penny Nance, president and CEO of CWA. “Obama should demand that Priorities USA return the money immediately – or in the very least, quit sending White House staff out to fundraise for the group. Now that David Axelrod isn’t going to be on Maher’s show, will White House staff stop going to fundraisers for Maher’s group?†Tickets for the Maher event, set to take place the evening of March 17th, cost $100.
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So ask Bill Mayer [Ma-her] whether maybe his anti-woman remarks are somehow related to his name? Remember the nursery rhyme: Hey little baby don’t you cry…. Ma-Ma’s going a buy you a golden ring… And if that golden ring don’t …. then ma-ma’s going to ….
Yes, names can affect behavior. And maybe Bill Ma-her[rejected somewhere, somehow by some females] just cannot help being so anti-women. Does Obama really want or need his money? Given Obama’s low and slipping approval ratings, it looks like Obama needs Bill Maher’s money.
