Posted 10:01 PM by Gerald Klaas
The way I remember it, homelessness was the en vogue cause du jour of the late 80's. It always amazed me that there were people (actually a majority of Americans) who thought that homelessness was "fixable". Homelessness sometimes is "fixable", but often is not, regardless of how much of my, or rather our money the government throws at it. As this article shows, there are still people intent on terrorizing the productive (can you say, "IRS"?) to satisfy their feelings of self-righteousness even if it is for naught (can you say "homeless by choice"?).

The biggest federal grant in some time to the city, however, was awarded this fall. It was just $6 million, to develop or revamp fewer than 200 units of supportive housing.

For those of you who have never been to San Francisco, it truly is a beautiful city, but the number of homeless persons is amazing. They sleep on the sidewalks, the parks and the lawns of city hall; fighting and panhandling and otherwise harassing locals and tourists. If you could actually get the homeless off the streets for $30,000 a piece ($6M / 200), it'd be a bargain, but alas, they won't go, too many damned rules in "supportive housing" don't ya know.

"If you house the hardest to serve and the most needy (the hard-core 3, 000), you'll see a visible reduction in the number of homeless on the streets -

if not a full elimination," Leshin said. "It's our absolute belief that this is solvable."

Yeah, and I'm Santa Claus. (......friggin' idiots.....)

Posted 7:42 AM by Gerald Klaas
In this article titled "Orchids not Osama" we see that the Federal Police State is more than a figment of the collective Tax Honesty Movement mind. George Norris had been importing the same orchids for 25 years until one day he found a set of Kevlar coated thugs at his front door.

Norris says that he had documents proving that the orchids were imported legally, "but they wouldn't listen. They didn't want to listen. They had a plan and went through with it. They don't even understand their own regulations."

That last sentence certainly reminded me of the IRS, "They don't even understand their own regulations."

Posted 7:39 AM by Gerald Klaas
With California's illegal alien driver's license bill doomed in the assembly, some Californians mistakenly believe it is the power of our new Governor Schwarzenneger making it so. It's not. It is the imminent threat of a ballot initiative that scares the legislature's Latino Caucus. If the voters were to receive and pass the initiative, it would be politically untenable for the legislature to overturn the "will of the people" for at least a few years. By seeming to cower at The Governator, they are setting the scene for a "new and improved" bill to surface next year. The reporter who has Arnie's relationship with the legislature pegged is Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee

he confronts the political reality that with very few exceptions, legislators are in absolutely no danger of losing their seats, no matter how much public anger Schwarzenegger is able to generate, due to a bipartisan gerrymander of the Legislature's districts two years ago.

Posted 7:54 PM by Gerald Klaas
Thanks to David Goodyear for the link to Recognizing a Federal Reserve Slave

You have since your birth been a slave to the Federal Reserve Bank. You are collateral for a loan that can never be repaid. You are, in essence, nothing more than livestock, owning nothing and never being able to own anything – as long as you stay in ignorance. You are just a “natural resource”.

The other night I was explaining to someone the reasoning of why I refer to the income tax as the implementation of slavery. Although they saw the reasoning, I think that explanation got me ranked as one of them wacko tax protestors. Personally, I didn't understand how they could see the logic but not get to the conclusion.