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Stay tuned - California Dude is venturing out to Lake Isabella - tent camping for three days. Will try to post from there - bbugs, sand and skeeter updates on the way….

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped a final bombshell as he prepared to leave office, commuting the sentence of former assembly speaker Fabian Nunez’s son, who with friends got liquored-up and pre-meditaded a confrontation where an innocent SDSU student was stabbed to death.

Nunez’s son reportedly bragged after the murder that all would be OK because his father was Speaker of the Assembly.  Perhaps this is another lesson as to why we should not elect a celebrity to office who has no intention of running for another higher office.

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While you’re speeding up or down the Highway 15 on your way to or from Vegas, it is easy to miss this little gem in the desert. Gem if you are into historical ghost towns from the 1880’s. Calico was a thriving silver mining town in those days, and is now a restored tourist attraction with period-type stores and a restaurant or two. You can take a walk through the town and visit boot hill, then go half way back down the street and find the mining train ride that will take you on a tour of the long-gone mine area outside the town.

Whether you are in a hurry to lose your money in Vegas, or on the way back home, take some time to stop at this gem in the desert, just off the 15 near Baker, California.

Arizona has touched off a firestorm with senate bill 1070 - the Safe Neighborhood, law enforcement, immigration act. As the California Dude has said before, at least ridding our communities of the criminals in the illegal immigrant community should be a no-brainer. But the Democrat and the Republican parties see votes in the eventual legalization of millions of illegals.


Many states that care about their tax-paying, law-abiding citizens (note: California not included), have suffered for years as drug smugglers, people smugglers, gangs and everthing else pour across their borders un-checked. As citizens start to realize that hey, maybe the Federal Government is a disfunctional entity, groups like the Tea Party are standing up and saying “enough”.
Hats off to Arizona - if only the great state of California put political correctness aside and cared about the law-abiding tax-paying citizens - the ones who make society work.


Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal puts it all together in her article “The Big Alienation“.

Ah, the smell of sawdust on the floor, relaxing croutryside, and the rumbling sound of Harleys - what more could one ask for?

Cook’s Corner is a landmark bar and at the corner of Live Oak Canyon Road and Santiago Canyon Road in Orange County. The building is a refurbished World War II era barracks building. For many years Cook’s has been a destination for the weekend Harley Davidson riding set. Most seem to be middle-aged weekend bikers, as well as some ‘real’ bikers. The kind you take extra care not to bump in to…


The California Dude was there recently for a charity called BACA - Bikers Against Child Abuse. This organization is targeting the repeal of federal law that makes it almost impossible to remove a child from a home, even when there is evidence the child is being abused.

With the recent California budget battle, where the so-called ‘Republican Party’ caved and raised taxes $42 billion, more than any state in U.S. history, the need for the Golden State to go bankrupt and start over again is apparent. Like AIG, GM, and the banks, California’s un-sustainable finanical structure goes unchanged as the problem gets papered over with tax payer dollars.

Maybe the poster child for all this is Nadya Suleman, Octo-Mom. A useless grifter who may well have mental problems, happily pops out babies she cannot afford or take care of, while guess who foots the bill. There are hundreds of thousands of smaller Octo-Moms in California, pounding out kids in improvrished conditions, with no means of support. Don’t worry, the taxpayers will pay for their delivery, food till they are 18, and all the education.

A Ray of Light: John and Ken
In these surreal times, thank God there is somebody covering the issues on AM radio. John and Ken. Togehter with the Howard Jarvis Foundation, these two lone voices are informing the public. They are leading a tax revolt, where turn-coat Republican’s heads are put on a stick, and key lawmaker traitors are targeted for recall elections. John and Ken Page

Unlike worthless news organizations like the L.A. Times and T.V., the radio duo chronicle how the state is taken to the cleaners by state worker’s unions. The unions are so powerful that politicians vote for real reform at the cost of their careers. Play ball and keep Octo-Screwing the taxpayers with endless tax hikes, and you will be richly rewarded.

How California Became France
Here is an article from the Wall St. Journal on how California is becoming France. Article

Just three years after losing all of the ballot initiatives that would have helped save California from coming bankruptcy, Arnold vetoed the illegal ‘fee’ raising Democrat budget today.

Following the 2005 intiatives loss, The Governator immediately decided to join them rather than live to fight another day. So much for leadership. At least today he did the right thing. Maria will make him sleep on the couch for a few days. But who knows what he will do next?

Here it is, the year 2008, and an amazing concept seems to be catching on.  It is mind-boggling that deporting illegal imigrant gang members has not been the standard operating procedure for the past 20 years, but then again this is Calfornia.

Fresno-area law enforcement is working with ICE to take on gangs like MS13 by deporting gang members.  The beauty of teaming up with the feds is they have a number of tools local and state governments cannot use.  A gang memeber who is deported and then returns to the US can be put in federal prison for 20 years.  The feds can send said gang member to another state, where they have no gang member friends.  The federal government can quickly deport gang members, as just the fact that they are here illegally and are part of a gang can result in almost-immediate deportation.

Hopefully teaming with ICE to get the criminals out of our state will be the policy throught out California.  Click here to read the Fresno Bee article on how they are dealing with gang bastards.  Fresno Bee Article

While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom celebrates his wedding in Montana this weekend, Mrs. Anthony Balogna is grieving for her husband and two sons. Thanks to Newsom’s outrageous policy of declaring and openly advertising SF as a sanctuary city as a safe haven for illegal immigrant gang bangers and juvenile criminals, her family is destroyed.


Anthony and his sons, age 16 and 20, made the mistake of blocking MS 13 gang member on an early-afternoon San Francisco street with their car.  They did not move out of the way fast enough, and gang member and illegal immigrant Edwin Ramos slaughtered them with an AK-47.  Ramos had been arrested at least 3 times, including for beating up a pregnant woman, and was not reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement due to Mayor Gavin’s sanctuary policy.


Not only is SF a sanctuary city that protects juvenile felons, they have been caught moving these animals to safe houses in other parts of the state.  They act surprised that all 12 juvenile criminals in the minimum security locations simple walked away recently.


Have a great wedding Newsom. I’ll bet Mrs. Balogna would have like to attend her sons’ weddings.  But that won’t happen now.


Even the San Francisco Chronic is outraged - click below to read the article.

Balogna Murders

I was strolling through the San Gabriel Cemetery yesterday following a family member’s funeral, when a memorial grave marker caught my eye. It was that of none other than General George S. Patton. The greatest general of World War II (or all time?). His Third Army liberated millions of Europeans from the Nazis, and his problems with authority are legendary.

Patton was born in San Gabriel 1885, the son of a prominent family in that area at the time. He survived fighting Pancho Villa, exposing himself to enemy fire in World War I, and World War II, only to die as the result of a Jeep accident in 1945. His simple marker is a rectangle in the grass that reads: ‘In Memoriam Gen. George S. Patton ‘The Liberator’.