Showing posts with label State of California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State of California. Show all posts

Friday, April 01, 2011

Baca (D-Rialto) Supports Ontario Airport Transfer (Press Enterprise~Business) March 16, 2011


Baca (D-Rialto) supports Ontario Airport transfer


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Amid all of the recent Ontario Inernational Airport back-and-forth between the city of Ontario which wants to control the airport and the city of Los Angeles which currently owns and manages it, I missed a letter that Inland Congressman Joe Baca (D-Rialto) sent to the city's chief administrator.


On Feb. 24, not long after state Sen. Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) introduced Bill 446 that would establish the Ontario International Airport Authority to usurp control of the Inland airport from the city of Los Angeles, Baca wrote a letter to the City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to support transferring the management of Ontario airport to a local authority.


"I believe that under local operating control, ONT can recover from the the economic downturn of the past several years while positioning itself for long-term growth," he wrote.


Baca's letter follows one from the Southern California Association of Governments that also supported transferring the airport to local control. The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation has also said the city of Los Angeles should look at giving up management control of the airport, although the group didn't say who should manage it. An editorial from The Los Angeles Times questioned why the city of Los Angeles' control of an airport so far away.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Dems' Want to borrow from the lottery to help close budget deficit (Sac Bee June 6, 2008)

BS Ranch Perspective
We here at the BS Ranch have a Suggestion and that is to advise all those dim witted, Very Short Sighted, elected officials who are worried about making their name stick on the Books of California's History, Weather it be on a Bridge, Building, or a very large piece of land that is set aside that for animals or people in the name of a historical landmark. But It has to be named after them and their Do Nothing But leave the state in a more broke, Over spent Position that it was left in before!!
BS Ranch

Dems want to borrow from lottery to help close budget deficit

By Judy Lin - jlin@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Friday, June 6, 2008

Democratic lawmakers made an opening pitch Thursday for closing the state's $15.2 billion deficit, using lottery borrowing as well as unspecified proposals to close tax loopholes.

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, said during an appearance Thursday at the Sacramento Press Club that she wants $6.4 billion in new revenue because her party intends to protect education and maintain the state's safety net for the poor.

"At the end of the day, from our point of view, we need to balance the budget with revenue," Bass said. "We said from the beginning we were not going to agree to balance the budget with cuts only."

She set a goal to complete the budget by the start of the new fiscal year – July 1, though she admitted it was unlikely.

With no plans to meet the June 15 constitutional deadline for passing a balanced budget, lawmakers will begin next week reconciling similar spending plans crafted by Democrats in each house before starting serious negotiations with Republicans.

Bass said she wanted to suspend tax breaks approved when the state's revenue was rosier. But GOP members immediately criticized the proposal, saying Californians should not pay for the Legislature's overspending.

"At a time when the price of gas and food is up and home values are down, it is pretty clear that people cannot afford to pay higher taxes," said Assembly Republican leader Mike Villines of Clovis.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a $144.4 billion budget for the new fiscal year that would cover the state's deficit by using a combination of cuts and a plan to sell bonds against the lottery's future profits. He wanted to use $5.1 billion from lottery proceeds next year to help close the gap in the $101.8 billion general fund.

Assembly Democrats have supported the governor's plan to borrow from the lottery but rejected his proposal to put the money into a so-called "rainy day" account. Instead, they would like to use the money to pay down debt.

Democratic leaders in both houses proposed giving schools more than the governor recommended. They include cost-of-living increases for teachers.

"Everybody is very pleased the ante keeps getting raised by factions in the Capitol," said Kevin Gordon, a school funding expert and consultant.

Democrats have rejected what they considered to be the worst of the governor's proposed cuts on health care and social services.

"This is what the debate is going to be about: Are we going to deny thousands of people coverage or raise revenues to prevent those cuts?" said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a consumer advocacy coalition.


Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps For A More Perfect Union (Minutemen form letter requesting assistance)

BS Ranch Perspective

The Following Minutemen Civil Defense Corps Letter is a Heart Warming Letter that Explains that there are actual People that are Hispanic that are part of the Minutemen, and they also don't like it when the Men or Woman of their own Racial make up, are in this Country in Violation of the LAW!! maybe their family roots have been sorted in violation of the law for them to enter the country the same way or they entered the Country in the same way or Maybe their FAMILY ENTERED THE COUNTRY IN THE LEGAL WAY!!!...

See I am not Hispanic, however My Wife is!! She is Her family is totally against the method that the Illegal Immigrants are entering into the United States, and not just that, but then they find a job Working Illegally, and send for more of their Family to swim across the Rio Grand & also into the U.S. Illegal, All living in a 1 Bedroom Apartment, sometimes the whole Family, Sleeping a Dozen people or more in a Master Bedroom, and then there are usually more in the Living Room and the Walk In Closet is the Master Suit where the Married Mom & Dad Sleep!!

Now I am the son of a German Immigrant and My whole family with the exception of me, had to earn their Citizenship, I was born in the States, and therefore had earned my Citizenship, but I heard about their hard work and classes to make their Citizenship!!

Now, being that I worked in a Law Enforcement Back Round, and I am Medically Retired from a Accident that was caused by a Car Turning left in front of me Killing Me!! Leaving me to be revived  by my Fellow Law Enforcement Partners, and the Rialto Fire Paramedics, making me stable before getting me to LLUMC, where surgery, and Lots of care to keep me alive and looking close to what I used to look like.

I have to say that looking at people entering into the United States by crossing the border and then getting a job and just blending into the regular Population kind of blur's Lines. Now this activity is written on the Law Books, and Defined as AGAINST THE LAW!! But it seems that the Liberals, and the Republican Politicians that are trying to pander to the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who have managed to get REGISTERED TO VOTE, & if you don't believe that there are any Illegal Immigrants that are Registered to Vote, Then I bet that you would not believe the bridge that I have to sell you!! It is called the London Bridge, but you can call it what you want when you are done purchasing it from me!!

So, lets Recap: The Republicans that say that they are against the whole Idea of Illegal Immigrants, but they are wanting to give in to the Idea of Amnesty!! I know that the Democrats are all right with the Idea of Illegal Immigrants Registering to Vote, Working, and well, just not have any kind of a border at all, The Idea that I get from what I am reading is that they want the Mexican Government to Identify the border on their side and mark it, but on our side it has to be ignored and everyone that crosses is welcome into the United States, with no Question's Asked, well as long as they are here to work, then the answer to them is WELCOME!!

I feel coming from a Law Enforcement Back Round that they are breaking the LAW, and they should be PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW, WHEN THEY VIOLATE THE LAW!!! Then they should be sent back to Mexico, with nothing but the pants that they were wearing, No shirt, no shoes, no socks, and a free head shaving, so that next time that they are in the u/X that they are caught quicker, then when they come into the country they would either all have shaved heads so that they would all be identified easily, and they would do it as a fashion statement so that there would be less confusion as to who was deported back to Mexico after their 1 or 2 year stay in County Jail for Illegally entering into the United States, now it isn't just the Mexican Race that would be in violation of this Law, There would also be French Citizens, United Kingdom Citizens, Russian Citizen's, People that are Citizen's of Spain, & also Citizens of Germany, ALL OF WHICH ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION LAWS, AND WOULD BE ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO JAIL FOR 1 TO 2 YEARS FOR THIS SPECIFIC VIOLATION!!!! Now they would be held for the equal amount for this violation each time that they are caught, and the reason for that is because of the violation of the United States Immigration Laws!!

Look I didn't Write the laws, and many of the people that are screaming for Amnesty, also didn't write the law, in fact many of those people were not alive when this law was written, In fact this law was written before all of our time, but that is no reason for them to even try to think that it should be re written, because it isn't something that it should be re-written!! The Law is written pretty good the way that it is, the problem is that the Asses that we are electing are not putting the Nails to the people that are in their Employ, who is namely the Men & Woman of the Border Patrol Division of the Federal Government!!   They Need to Start to ENFORCE THE LAW!!

BS Ranch
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Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
For A More Perfect Union

6501 Greenway Parkway Suite 103-640 Scottsdale, AZ 85254 :: Phone (520) 829-3112

I am Hispanic. I am an American. I am a Minuteman. These terms are not contradictory.

By Al Garza
National Executive Director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps


During my youth, I served this country proudly in the Marine Corps in Vietnam, along with some great Americans. I now have that opportunity once again to serve my country with other great Americans, through my role with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. We are a volunteer organization filled with patriots who stand watch on our nation’s borders in support of the brave men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol.

We are motivated by the rule of law and the need to secure the borders of the United States for the sake of our children and our grandchildren. Like our Founding Fathers, we are willing to sacrifice our lives and fortunes “in order to form a more perfect union,” even when we are discouraged by the actions of our elected leaders in Washington, who often forget that they “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the Governed…”

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers do not engage in hate speech, bigotry, violence, vigilantism or launch unjust personal attacks against law-abiding citizens. In fact, we are commissioned to witness to the injustice of the “we hate America crowd” led by the National Council of LaRaza who have exposed their true motives when they threaten Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser for refusing to fire Frances Semler from her appointed post on the Park Board without cause; an action that would result in most private employers receiving an expensive lesson in employment law.

I urge the citizens of Kansas City to question the actions of the National Council of LaRaza, a group which claims to stand for civil rights, but extorts your Mayor with threats of defamation and boycott if their demands are not metâ€"demands that a grandmotherly civic leader be terminated for her affiliation with a patriotic organization. I find their actions demeaning to all Hispanic Americans, and undermining of our civil liberty and patriotism.

After all, can any organization that encourages people to violate our laws truly claim to love America? Can you truly love America if one of your stated goals is to violently reclaim U.S. soil in the name of Mexico through a movement known as Reconquista?

Unlike LaRaza’s selfish agenda, our Minuteman mission is peaceful and responsible for saving the lives of hundreds who entered our country illegally and were left to die in the desert, be forced into prostitution or otherwise exploited for their cheap labor. Securing the borders is pro-immigrant. Minutemen volunteers are showing our federal government and fellow citizens the national security effectiveness for the protection of all that will result from the construction of a double-layered physical fence, and a simple increase in the number of Border Patrol agents and National Guard troops stationed on our borders.

As citizens, we have a moral obligation to provide immigrants a safe passageâ€"by our rulesâ€"while also protecting the citizens of the United States from invasion, disease and criminal behavior. The immigration problems we face can be resolved when employers, elected officials, the judicial system and law enforcement agencies at the local, state and national levels work together to enforce all immigration laws.

Minuteman activities are inclusive, conducted by men and women, naturalized as well as native-born citizens, college students and members of the Granny Brigade who fill a void on a mission that continues to receive strong support from millions of Americans. Our volunteers will travel from all over America to the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canadian borders next month for our national muster. They will observe and report illegal activity to the proper authorities. Furthermore, they will call, write and fax their Members of Congress to voice their opposition to the on-going lobbying campaigns advancing amnesty legislation.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps conducts our activities for the “general welfare” of all legal citizens of the United States and the protection of all innocent human life. Can LaRaza really claim they do the same thing?

Minutemen and Donations Needed NOW!

Click Here to Donate to the October Operations Support Fund
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=953

You too can help defend American by making your way to the border to join the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps as the first line of defense against illegal immigration. Sign up now to do your part in securing America!

If you can not commit to going to the border, fear not! You can still be a great help! Donate now to support those that are on the border and help pave the way to a secure America with the brave pioneers on the border!

The people of America are what make us strong, people just like you who are willing to sacrifice time and money in the pursuit of a strong and secure America. It takes the people of America to secure America. Americans don’t rely on others or wait for somebody else to fix the problem, we are trailblazers!

Click Here to Donate to the October Operations Support Fund
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=953

Monday, October 1st through Wednesday, October 31st

At the U.S. - Mexico Border shared with Arizona, Texas and California as well as the U.S.-Canada Border shared with Washington State. Select here for details http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/borderops.php

Our Government is still NOT DOING ITS JOB! Beginning October 1st 2007, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps will conduct 24/7 operations for 31 days to secure the border. Your participation is critical.

WE MUST HAVE VOLUNTEERS AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES NOW!

If patriotic Americans don't take actionâ€"QUICKLYâ€"the new liberal Congress in Washington will ERASE OUR BORDERS and vote for AMNESTY instead of border security.

MCDC is CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS and Minuteman SUPPORTERS in the colonial tradition of the Minutemen, to SERVE or DONATE money and materials to HELP PROTECT AND DEFEND OUR NATION. Thank you to all volunteers who at their own expense are heading to the border and to those who respond by doing one or more of the following:

1) If you are a registered volunteer and cannot go to the border, or if you just want to send your financial support to our Minutemen at the border.
Click Here to Donate to the October Operations Support Fund
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=953

2) If you want to be a Registered Minuteman and get your ID card.
Click Here To Become a Real Border Security Minuteman!!! https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/registration.php?a=953

3) See October Border Muster Operations locations and schedules.
Click Here for Minuteman Corps October 2007 Border Watch Details
www.minutemanhq.com/hq/borderops.php

YOU can make a REAL DIFFERENCE. So, for your sake, for the sake of your children, your grandchildren, and for generations to come, please help MCDC continue its fight to protect and preserve the United States of America and defend our Constitution.

Sincerely for these United States,

Carmen Mercer
Vice President
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

Select Here to Donate to the October Operations Support Fund https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/?a=953

Select Here To Become a Real Border Security Minuteman!!!
https://secure.responseenterprises.com/minutemanhq/registration.php?a=953

Select Here for Minuteman Corps October 2007 Border Watch Details
www.minutemanhq.com/hq/borderops.php

If you prefer to donate by check, please mail to:
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
Dept Code 953
PO Box 130707
Houston, TX 77219-0707

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Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Inc.
6501 Greenway Parkway
Suite 103-640
Scottsdale, AZ 85254

Phone (520) 829-3112
http://www.minutemanhq.com


Saturday, October 20, 2007

Fresh-Faced Deputy Sheriff Shoots Dead Six Teenagers in Revenge for 'Break-Up With Girlfriend' ( Wis. Daily Mail Oct. 08, 2007 )

BS Ranch Perspective

This is such a difficult subject to write about, but I will give it a go, You know death is such a permanent thing to solve a problem that might take about six months to a year in such a young mans life. The Psychological Testing that the Law Enforcement Officers Take are that if the MMPI (Minnesota Multiple Personalty Index), which is a multiple choice test, that has between 500 & 600 Questions in it (I believe that it is approx. 540 questions or 580 questions I am not sure, it has been approx. 5 years since I had taken the test.).

There are people that get through the test, and the following Interview with the Psychologist, I believe that there might also be some added tests that go along with the MMPI, test that have to do with Depression,  also there is another short one that deals again with the way that you deal with the little emergencies and crisis's that come along and effect our every day lives. Again that doesn't give the Psychologist any way to see into the future to see what is going to happen when a woman that this guy believes that he loves, and she dumps him for another man...

It is hard when anyone gets into Law Enforcement when they are too young, and they really are not Emotionally Ready for such a commitment as Law Enforcement!! This young Deputy was not ready for the world of Law Enforcement and what it brings. Had he known it all he would have done was put that uniform on and gone to work, there is always a Waitress or a Nurse that loves to see a Young man in Uniform!! Back when I started I had girls that were chasing my Police Prowler on calls, & I will never forget the time that I almost shot, Not one but two girls on a prowler call. The girls were not the prowlers, that was done by a Possum, They had chased me to the location and started to follow me around on my area check with a Plate of Home Baked Cookies, They were great, but they were almost shot, and I yelled at them and rightly so...

I also had the biker woman that did the same thing. I was writing reports in a park in my area, when her and her friend happened to find me. When I was telling her to leave me alone as I had a girl Friend that I was dedicated to, She proceeded to take her shirt off and threw it up into the tree. It was all I could to at that time to not arrest her for indecent Exposure, but I realized at that time I am really not a victim of the said crime, so I got into my Patrol Car/Office and motored on and took some calls for service!!

When you are not Mature for the things that you run across in Law Enforcement, then you really have problems or you can have problems. Problems that follow you until you are either fired or you leave because you cannot handle it.

In this case maybe the pressure of Patrol, and now the pressure of what he felt was some kind of invested Relationship was time for him to let go and have everyone out, if he couldn't have the woman, then no one would be entitled to her. How he could be come Homicidal, and instead of being the hunter, he became what all Law Enforcement Officers Dread, and that is becoming the Hunted!! This might explain why, he figured out that he would take his own life!! That way the hunt would be over!!

The whole thing is really a sad deal and no one will know why, anyone does this. Just that it has to take a real personal tie from that woman to push the buttons of that Deputy to lead him on to this kind of an event that he would take not only her life, but the life of the one causing his pain, and then his own life.

BS Ranch



Fresh-faced Deputy Sheriff shoots dead six teenagers in revenge for 'break-up with girlfriend'

Last updated at 10:44am on 8th October 2007 This is the first picture of the fresh-faced policeman who gunned down seven teenagers at a late-night house party in a brutal act apparently motivated by revenge.

Sheriff's deputy Tyler Peterson, 20, "went berserk" after an argument with his girlfriend, according to reports.

Fuelled by anger, he burst into her house in Crandon, Wisconsin, where up to ten teenagers all aged 14 to 20 were enjoying pizza and movies, and opened fire.

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Face of the gunman: Tyler Peterson

Today, six people had been confirmed dead, with one fatality believed to be Peterson's girlfriend, while a seventh was fighting for his life in hospital.

The gunman, who had been at the same school as some of his victims, was eventually brought down by a police sniper after a manhunt.

As news of the shooting filtered through Crandon, which only has 2,000 residents, the community was in shock.

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Shocked: Neighbours comfort each other at the scene

So far, the identity of only one of the dead has been confirmed - 14-year-old Lindsey Stahl.

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Armed response: A SWAT team member in action

Her distraught mother Jenny, 39, described how her daughter how phoned her on Saturday night and asked if she could stay at a friend's.

Tragically, her mother agreed.

"I'm waiting for somebody to wake me up right now. This is a bad, bad dream," she said, sobbing.

"All I heard, it was a jealous boyfriend and he went berserk. He took them all out."

Peterson had apparently only been in his job for a week but was not on duty at the time of the shooting.

Crandon police chief John Dennee refused to confirm reports that Peterson was a member of the force's heavily-armed SWAT team.

Describing the bloodbath, neighbour Marci Franz told how he heard shots from the party early on Sunday morning.

He said: "They sounded distant at first and I was wondering if they were gunshots.

"Then I heard another succession of shots and it sounded very close to my house. Then immediately there was the sound of squealing tyres."

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Crandon is such a small community every family in the town expects to be affected by the shooting

Crandon is about 225 miles north of Milwaukee in an area known for logging, and fishing, hunting and snow-mobiling.

Bud Evans, an elder at the Crandon Praise Chapel, said worried relatives had gathered there as they waited for news.

"They're coming and going. There's probably 100 or more here and I'm sure they're gathered at other places in town as well," he said.

"If there's five or six kids or young adults involved in this, I'd know every one - the community's that small and that tight-knit."

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"This has been a very tragic event," said Forest County supervisor Tom Vollmar. "It's affected probably every family in this community.

"Nobody expected anything like this. I guess nobody anywhere does."

The shooting came six months after the worst gun massacre in U.S. history when Cho Seung-hui killed 32 students and staff at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, before turning the weapon on himself.

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The neighbourhood where Peterson burst in on a group of young people and opened fire