Month: April 2018

Well it seems that Cal is at it again. In years past he seemed to be such a nice kid, but here recently it seems that his adolescent hormones have taken over, and he has turned into a petulant teenager. It’s almost as if his sole mission in life is to push his parents to the limit. Recently it seems that no matter what his parents say, Cal objects. He resides in their house, but here recently, he seems intent on making his own rules. If his parents say X, he will say NOT-X, no matter what X happens to be. Last month he stated that his friends would be spending the night in his room. His parents objected as what he really insisted on was that these friends would be allowed to spend both day and night in his room, no matter whether they were upstanding citizens or not, and no matter whether or not they were supporting themselves while residing in the parent’s house.
His parents said to him, “Son, this is our house. Yes, you have your own room, but it is still our house, and so when there is a difference of opinion regarding which rules are going to apply in our house, our rules will have precedence. We have allowed you to decorate your room, and arrange the furniture the way that you desire, as what your room looks like on the inside is of no significance to us. However, keep in mind that many of the pieces of furniture in that room actually belong to us. For instance, if we wish to sell that chest-of-drawers that we had when we got married, we do not need your approval. Likewise we do not need your approval to take back that bookcase so that we can find a better use for it. Yes, we understand that you like that bookcase, and that you have grown accustomed to it being in the corner of your room, but in reality, it is ours. We know that you and you cronies are going to get together and complain that what we are deciding to do is not fair. However, in the end we both know that, in essence, while it is your room . . . it is our house!”

Wow, that Cal certainly seems like a spoiled brat. Who is Cal?
The parents seem to be losing patience with Cal . . . understandably!
Could the bookcase and the chest-of-drawers be metaphors for 78 acres of Army land in Dublin, Ca. and Navy property in Alameda, Ca., called Admiral’s Cove?
Is Cal using the “Public Lands Protection Act” to back up this new petulant behavior?

If a small city or town has an ordinance that says XYZ, can a small portion of that town say, “No, we are not going to abide by that ordinance?” Most of us would agree that everyone who lives in that town has to follow the rules of the town, otherwise chaos would reign. Likewise if one district in a big city refused to abide by the city’s laws, again chaos would reign, and so this cannot be allowed. If one portion of a state says, “No we are not going to follow this state law,” would we agree that chaos again would be on the menu? Well welcome to California where the most recent developments include some portions of the state saying, “No, we are not going to abide by that XYZ (Sanctuary state) law.” The Orange County Board of Supervisors, Los Alamitos, a small city in Orange County, and the city of Yorba Linda, again in Orange County have come out against the sanctuary state policies passed by the Democratic State Legislature. Orange County Supervisor, Lisa Bartlett, stated, “ If they are undocumented and they commit crimes, they should be deported.” Also two counties in NorCal as well as the city of Anderson have declared their jurisdictions to be “non-sanctuary” areas of the state. Chaos!
I am going to assume that our Democratic governor will not stay quiet on this issue, and is basically going to tell these rebel jurisdictions that they cannot choose to not follow the policy of the state. However, there is a dilemma here. Can the State of California mandate that all jurisdictions in the state have to follow the state’s sanctuary policies when the state is not following the federal laws of the country of which it is a part? Can the cause of one type of chaos claim the high road when dealing with other chaos within its borders? As the mayor of Los Alamitos said, “I think that the state has overstepped its boundary. This type of issue should be dealt with by the U.S. Government and not the state.”
State tuned as “Days of (California)Our Lives” is just beginning a new chaotic season!