Santa Barbara is as racist, whacky and financially irresponsible as any county in California. Andy Caldwell reports on some of the craziest things they do in that county.
“The reason there were no more BLM riots, such as was the case after the Daniel Penny “not guilty” verdict in New York, is because all the people that once made their living by showing up to riot have been hired to teach Critical Race Theory in our schools, or they have been hired to become Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion managers by government and big corporations.
Speaking of DEI, the County of Santa Barbara’s new DEI manager (salary plus benefits will be about $200k) will require that all employees list their personal pronouns in all correspondence and reports. Here are some personal pronoun suggestions for county employees who may not know how to describe themselves accurately:
Me/Myself/I;
I/waste/tax dollars;
My/pension’s/unsustainable;
I’m not happy/unless/the public’s not happy;
This/beats working/for a living;
I/work from home/ha ha ha.”
My favorite personal pro nouns? “you/are crazy”
My Psychic Predictions for 2025
by Andy Caldwell, Santa Barbara Current, 12/29/24 https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/my-psychic-predictions-for-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2074654&post_id=153707043&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=x9o3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
A gifted seer with a unique ability to glimpse into the future of Santa Barbara.
Please enjoy these predictions in the tradition of the best supermarket tabloids.
After 20 years of having served as an elected official, County Supervisor Das Williams will go where all bureaucrats in this area go for a lucrative semi-retirement gig: UCSB. Due to his super-ego-fueled tendency to give a lecture at any given moment, demonstrating everything he knows about every single subject known to man, he will get a job as a lecturer at the Bren School of Environmental Science. The problem is his lectures will never end. Thereby, all his students will eventually have to drop his class to finish their degrees.
The reason there were no more BLM riots, such as was the case after the Daniel Penny “not guilty” verdict in New York, is because all the people that once made their living by showing up to riot have been hired to teach Critical Race Theory in our schools, or they have been hired to become Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion managers by government and big corporations.
Speaking of DEI, the County of Santa Barbara’s new DEI manager (salary plus benefits will be about $200k) will require that all employees list their personal pronouns in all correspondence and reports. Here are some personal pronoun suggestions for county employees who may not know how to describe themselves accurately:
Me/Myself/I;
I/waste/tax dollars;
My/pension’s/unsustainable;
I’m not happy/unless/the public’s not happy;
This/beats working/for a living;
I/work from home/ha ha ha.
If you think the County of Santa Barbara and the State Coastal Commission will have the last laugh on preventing the restart of the Sable (formerly Exxon) offshore rigs and onshore facility, think again. I predict President-elect Donald Trump will reauthorize offshore barging operations for the oil production and, in the same breath, he will tell the Coastal Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to go pound sand for trying to limit Elon Musk’s (Trump’s new BFF) Space X increased launch schedule at Vandenberg.
Bob Nelson’s Dead End
County Supervisor Bob Nelson is going to have a street named after him in a new development. Unfortunately, it is a dead-end street. Supervisor Nelson, with whom I mostly agree, has gone apoplectic regarding a proposed development known as Richard’s Ranch. How bad is his apoplexy? He had to receive a public admonition from Supervisors Hartmann and Williams that developers must be treated fairly. And that is from two supervisors who have never met a developer that they liked.
Bob’s dead-end has to do with the fact that no matter how much he wants the developer to go through the county’s long, expensive, uncertain, and tortured process to build some badly needed homes in the Orcutt area, the county has no state water to serve the project. Hence, the City of Santa Maria (the county capital of state water) has graciously agreed to annex the land and, by law, to split future tax revenues with the county. So, what’s not to love? Bob’s dead end! That is, if Bob manages to successfully sabotage the multi-year effort to get this project approved in the city – and believe me, he’s trying – the builder has reserved the nuclear option that Bob can’t stop. This is known as “the builder’s remedy” based on a state law that gives the developer the absolute right to build an alternative development on the site that nobody, including Bob, wants. In other words, while Bob is engaged in a game of checkers, the developer is playing three-dimensional chess.
County Supervisor Laura Capps, who has never had a job in the private sector, is going to want the county to hire everybody in the county so that they too can enjoy government largesse. Just recently, for starters, she inquired as to whether the contractor who provides janitorial services to the county pays its employees a living wage with good benefits. If not, she wants the county to hire its own janitorial staff. Currently, the county is on track to have 5,000 employees, almost all of whom earn upwards of 30% or more than their private sector counterparts, not to mention pension benefits that are orders of magnitude more lucrative than the Social Security benefits the private sector earns in retirement, none of which matters to Capps.
Andy Caldwell, Executive Director, COLAB
