Have you seen those CareerBuilder.com ads? You know, the ones where a bunch of crazy monkeys work in the office. I am beginning to imagine that scenario is very similar to how the City of Sacramento functions.

The latest arena proposal has failed. While due in large part to the tomfoolery of Doug Ose, the majority of the problem lies with the inept, impotent city government.

For some inexplicable reason, city leaders still think of Sacramento as some kind of assbackwards town where tall buildings are the devil and public financing is demonic.

Now I'll grant the latest proposal was based on a lot of hopeful figures and dreams. However, that does not eliminate the fact the city leaders have screwed up everything they touch.

For example, the city's process of granting approval for buildings to be constructed is so asinine that an entirely new department is being developed to help expidite the approval process through the existing departments.

Now as for the arena...the city has let a THIRD proposal go awry and now the city is in danger of losing the Kings altogether. First there was the railyards, then the downtown arena, now this one. The city leaders appear to be completely devoid of any type of leadership.

They also seem to be spineless. The city gave in immediately to naysayers who decried the use of public funds to build an arena. If you are one of those people it is my opinion that you are extremely short-sighted. You are the kind of person that believes the arena is to serve only the Kings. That is simply wrong. The Kings would be the most frequent users of the arena but an arena provides literally dozens upon dozens of other entertainment options.

Without an arena there would be no IDisney on Ice (kids love that), there would be no Monster Truck Rallies, there would be no big concerts, there would be no rodeos, there would be no a lot of things that arenas offer to the non-basketball fan.

There is also the matter of how an arena benefits the community itself. Arena events, Kings games included, bring money to local businesses. In a less tangible sense, having a pro sports franchise offers a sense of pride in one's city. Try taking away a city's pride and see how long you want to live there.

Then there are those in the suburbs that say, 'Hey, it's Sacramento's problem...I live in Folsom, or Roseville, or Auburn, or Granite Bay.' But that is wrong too. We are all part of a large metropolitan area and the Kings and other events belong to all of us.

The city leaders MUST realize they are elected representatives. What representatives do is represent the people. This is not a direct democracy. It is a representative democracy. With that in mind, add a 1% gas tax. Figure there are 2 million people in the metro area. Say the average gas expenditure is $25. A 1% tax (or $0.25) would generate $500,000 every time we all filled up.

Or for Pete's sake impose a visitor tax like EVERY OTHER CITY does. Impose a tax on rental cars and hotels. Old Sacramento alone has over 6,000,000 visitors a year. If the city got $50 from each of those visitors they would generate $300,000,000 annually.

The city leaders need to get some damn balls and do the right thing. And if you are one of those that says you don't watch basketball so you don't care you need to really evaluate why you can't spare a quarter now and then to retain one of Sacramento's most valuable resources.

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According to a new report 6 in 10 Americans are ready to for a "First Fella". http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=522948

What would the role of the nation's first President's husband be? Will he be a limp-wristed nancy boy? Will he be a cheese eating surrender monkey? No one knows.

Will he, like the 43 women before him, take part in mundane and essentially useless good will campaigns? Will he randomly appear at school functions to denouce druggery and sing the praises of home economics?

The First Fella will have some big ball gowns to fill. Quite literally in fact since 7 of Grover Cleveland's nine wives were 300 pounds or more.

Is the First Fella going to be a leech who lives off of his successful wife while pissing the day away watching ESPN 8: The Ocho and eating nacho cheese flavored snacks?

Perhaps the First Fella will be widely regarded as a deceptive, ice-cold ###### with ruthless intentions. Or maybe he will seem so old as to appear to be his wife's father.

Will he go down in history as completely forgotten like that Carter guy's wife? Maybe the First Fella will be a crazy as a homeless San Franciscan, or even worse, as crazy as a successful San Franciscan and go into mental seclusion after his wife is murdered by a man named Booth while watching a play in, coincidentally, a booth.

No one can say for sure what the first "First Fella" will be like. We can only guess that he will be mentally unstable, obese, and very likely homosexual.

If you're thinking to yourself, Bill will never be any of those things....you're right. He will have long since divorced his wicked, wicked wife.

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Many have heard that America is a Christian nation, but are not comfortable explaining why a Christian form of government is needed to secure life, liberty, and property for people of all faiths.

THIS SATURDAY, February 26, from 8:15am to noon, I will be participating in a seminar put on by Public Awareness Ministries that will feature nationally-known Christian history experts and teachers James Rose (President, American Christian History Institute) and Katherine Dang (President, Philomath Foundation). They will provide reasoning from Scripture about America’s security for life, liberty, and property: her Christian foundation (and how to preserve it).

I encourage you to attend and invite friends and family to this FREE seminar! It is open to all adults, and provides excellent Scriptural foundation for college, high school, and home school students in the areas of history, civics, and government.

You can RSVP by emailing Mark@PreserveLiberty.com OR calling Mark Matta at 916-716-1075 .


Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next”

This fact alone is reason enough to attend!

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From my perspective: In my opinion this group is not credible and the failure of their most recent initiative predictable. For that matter, I am not sure that they were not a ruse to start with.

1) They (SOL) had the signatures necessary to put the initiative on the ballot in 2003 but chose to cut a deal with Arnold and abandoned the effort

2) They may have had the signatures necessary to put the initiative on the ballot in 2004, but according to Andy Ramirez of Save our State, SOL was among a group of signature gathering organizations that he says held back signatures collected. Andy told me that he believes that was done over a misunderstanding over paid signatures. He says that Save our State (which was the actual petition author) had not previously agreed upon paying for signatures and there are some bad feelings and pointing fingers still out there.

3) In the 2005 effort they did not act as if they were serious at all. It was, in my opinion, a joke. Indeed, they did not contact me directly until the final days of the effort, despite the fact that I was a participant in the SOL founding press conference two years earlier, and a gateway to hundreds of thousands of dollars in free media attention. They conducted what amounted to a stealth signature campaign with little or no effort at publicity or promotion.

In fact, when Spanish Language media contacted me for interviews in the closing days of this signature gathering campaign, I declined, telling them that I did not take this effort seriously and that I had my personal doubts about the legitimacy of their efforts.

Mike Spence’s organization: The California Republican Assembly (CRA) is the heart of SOL, and at least in Northern California, has in my opinion conducted itself in a less than honorable manner. You may have read they are in hot water over problems with required financial filings which Mr. Spence has characterized as an oversight.

They had already burned me sufficiently for me to distance myself from them to the point of all but banning even callers from referring to them on the air, much less devote air time to supporting an effort that I took to be doomed from within. For example; one of its key people here (connected to a Sacramento/Roseville chapter of CRA) established a record of conning me into promoting “petition signing” events that turned out to be in reality promotional events for a religious radio station where one of his friends hosts a mostly unnoticed "talk" show in constant search of mainstream attention, and who is intriguingly enough a vocal (if unheard) opponent of grassroots pressure for immigration reform.. That abuse of access to my air was repeated by SOL supporters in the most recent drive on behalf of a radio preacher on another station owned by the same corporate for-profit "ministry". That key local CRA person may no longer be connected with the organization (or has finished his sabotage?) and moved on, as evidenced by the sudden and recent disappearance of that person’s Web-based blog. The others have been duly noted with one of them booted from my program as late as last week.

It is a shame. The measure could have qualified each of the three times that it circulated - indeed it did qualify the first time and probably had the signatures the second time; but each of the three times the CRA, via their junior organization SOL was central to its failure either via foolishness, or perhaps by design. Like I say...there is a lot of money to be made off of the backs of illegal aliens and, from the President down, there is serious opposition to doing the right thing.

They (CRA/SOL) may have been sincere. If so then they have proven hopelessly inept and could have been more honest.


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In Case you are wondering why I haven't been posting, I have been on a statewide press tour with Campaign for Children and Families against Mark Leno's AB 19, which would create same sex marriage in California. (Story Here)

Keep in mind that in 2000, California voters approved Prop. 22, which stated that

“Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California”

Well Leno is attempting to get around the bill by saying that the Proposition only addressed marriages performed outside the state and does not speak to the legalization of same sex marriage within the state.

Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who introduced the bill, co-authored by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nœ–ez, said it would not amend or modify Prop. 22.

"It amends Section 300 of the California Family Code," he said in a telephone conversation from his Sacramento office.

Section 300 reads, "Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary."

Leno's bill would amend that phrase to define marriage as a "personal relation arising out of a civil contract between two persons."

He said Prop. 22 would not be affected because that refers to marriages contracted outside of the state and does not require California to recognize those marriages.

Leno’s bill will essentially remove a man and a woman from marriage! This is deception of the worst kind!

These Democrats think the voters are stupid! Well…. Are you!!!!!

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