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If you want to know why California has landed in the hands of far left liberals, look no farther than the thinking represented in a comment made on the Stanislaus County Districts Facebook page. The DA staff announced that Lester Portillo pled guilty in murdering a south Modesto store clerk for not selling him loosies, or single cigarettes.

A Facebook user named Leslie Silva went on a rant of lunacy on Friday when she posted this: Stanislaus County District Attorney & Local Government Representatives you hand out life sentences to youth of color, and the percentage of the prison population is exponentially more than any other race, you hand out those life sentences from the day they are born and have done so generation after generation. The history of Hispanic oppression is prominent to Central Valley but more prominent is the power of the people when we come together as one and when our rights come under attack, we stand up fight back. All children deserve better education, shelter, food, and environment they can thrive in but that is not the case in Stanislaus County.

Wait. Lester Portillo KILLED SOMEBODY! This is not about Hispanics rights coming under attack. This is about somebody who took away all rights of a 31-year-old victim in Jagjeet Singh, and who deserves far more than 25 years in prison.

I fully appreciated the response of Carlo Alfaro, who replied to Silva: Im a youth of color(Mexican nationality). I have yet to receive my life sentence and I was born 23 years ago. Military five years now as well. Youre delusional, choosing victimization and playing the race card. Dont tell me its any different from up here in Alameda County. You look past the fact that this guy killed somebody simply because hes hispanic? And that he had no prior record? HELLO! He still killed somebody. Dont forget to pray for yourself. Please dont have kids.

Dont think for a moment that folks with Leslie Silvas line of thinking voted for anybody but Gavin Newsom for governor. This is why California has no chance of curing what ails it liberalism.

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Theirs is a confusing message. I agree with Renee Leveque who suggested last week that it seems silly that the City Council wants to outlaw parking on grass when they seem to be drifting to allowing people to keep their trash cans in public view.

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Willie Nelson, who appeared in concert at The Fruit Yard northeast of Hughson earlier this year, made news last week when he announced he has given up marijuana smoking 65 years later.

He cited health reasons. He told a reporter: Ive mistreated myself since I was this big, as he motioned toward the ground.

I could never figure out why people extol the virtues of smoking pot when its not good for anyone to put any kind of smoke in the lungs. Its just common sense.

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Its astounding how, in this age of information overload, ill-informed the public can be.

Last week our Facebook post promoting the article, Council mulls controls on noise, junk vehicles, drew a comment that couldnt have been farther from the truth. One couple (Steve and Susan Gordo) wrote: Wow. Because government knows best. Meanwhile, how is being a Sanctuary City helping Ceres? This kind of invasion of property rights bothers me.

Besides a non-running car, up on blocks, in the front yard, is a icon of country-western heritage.

My point here is not that some people think it idyllic that a car on blocks is symbolic of country western heritage but to not how wrong they are about sanctuary city status of Ceres. Ceres is not nor ever has been a sanctuary city, I informed them. The reply was: Admittedly it was hearsay, but when I worked there in the late 2000s, I was given the impression it was. I am glad if it is not a Sanctuary City.

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The coast lines of the world have been eroding for time immoral. There have been floods galore, including the great flood of the Mississippi in 1927 and the Los Angeles flood of 1938 and every flood to hit North America before recorded time. Thereve been mudslides, earthquakes and fires since the dawn of the earth. Galveston, Texas was wiped away in the hurricane of 1900. A tornado destroyed Natchez, Mississippi on May 7, 1840, killing 317 and injuring 109.

And now state agencies like Caltrans expect us to swallow the swill of climate change. You do understand its because the Democrats control the state government and love all the controls and taxes that come with the climate change hoax, dont you?

I chuckled at a press release sent to us by Caltrans last week announcing As part of an effort to identify how climate change will have on Californias complex transportation system that millions rely on, Caltrans is conducting region-specific climate change vulnerability assessments for each of Caltrans 12 districts.

In the release, climate change Kool-Aid drinker and director Toks Omishakin said this: Too many Californians have already experienced the effects of climate change including fires, flooding and mudslides impacting all modes of travel, the erosion of coastal highways, and dead and dying trees falling near roadways.

So this state official appointed by Gov. Newsom thinks climate change is responsible for fires, floods and mudslides, the erosion of the coast line? In his mind it couldnt have been the discourse of the planet since God created it! Problems like fires and mudslides and eroding coast lines tend to be magnified the more human population encroaches into areas not previously populated. I mean, a coastal collapse in Santa Barbara in 1455 wouldnt have affected anyone for Highway 1 wasnt there at the time. Everyone knows the coast line erodes and to put a house right at itss edge is asking for trouble.

I think people are wising up to this constant drumbeat of climate change nonsense.

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If youve paid attention to the supreme arrogance of our governor, youve probably noticed how incredibly dismissive he is of questions from people who point out his hypocrisy.

Newsom suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He loathes the president. At his speech in Fresno last month, Newsom took swipes at Trump to antagonize the president by saying he wasnt hugged enough by his father enough. When asked if trading insults with Trump and his supporters I am among them is good for political discourse, Newsom waived them off with his typical hubris. You should ask him, Newsom said. I am just responding to these assaults.

Doesnt that sound like something your kid said when they continued a verbal fight?

When Trump called Newsom on his radically environmental-motivated lack of forest maintenance, Newsom was equally dismissive, saying, You dont believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.

So with a sweep of his hand, Newsom ignores that his environmental worship has led to failure to clean up forest floors to avoid future fire. He doesnt care.

Newsom said Trumps childishness is legendary.

I say look in the mirror.

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I wish I had something to Jerry Nadler when I came face to face with him in Memphis in September. He happened to stroll by me and I recognized the congressman who is trying to conduct a coup against Trump.

I read last week that the Democrat congressman privately told others that Im not going to take any s---. I wish now that I would have told Nadler he is full of s--- for making up charges for impeachment.

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We can finally take a collective sigh of relief now that Kamala Harris is no longer a candidate for president. It was a disastrous candidacy, one in which she suggested all private health insurance needs to go the way of the dinosaur.

Unfortunately we have to endure as she takes her progressive brand of political ideology to represent us in the U.S. Senate.

Its shameful that the Al Sharpton types bemoaned the fact that all white candidates were to be in the next debate.

She engaged in divisive rhetoric, claiming to side with the poor blacks in her native Oakland all while living in the celebrity enclave of Brentwood. Talk about a hypocritical situation.

Harris indeed none of the Democrats had a compelling message. Its the same old class and race warfare bit. In January when actor Jussie Smollett said he was assaulted in Chicago by MAGA wearing Trump supporters, Harris (in Obama style) rushed without fact to condemn the attack an attempted modern-day lynching. When Smollett was caught staging the attack to get sympathy and publicity, a clueless Harris fumbled for 20 seconds on camera, looking to staffers, before faking this: the facts are still unfolding and, um, Im very, uh, concerned.

The truth is, Trump is more popular today with blacks than other presidents probably because blacks are faring much better under Trump than Obama.

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Is the Speaker of the House totally bonkers? Nancy lost it big time last week when a reporter asked if the impeachment effort against Trump was driven by hate. Its a fair question given the Democrats have yet to produce any evidence whatsoever that our president broke any laws and were talking impeachment before he even took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2017. Flustered, she took on the demeanor of a senile old schoolmarm lecturing a student about how her House members dont hate anybody in the world. She does a darn good imitation of it though and went on to call Trump a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. I think he is cruel when he doesnt deal with helping our Dreamers of which we are very proud. I think he is in denial about the climate crisis. As she unraveled, realizing those were political issues having nothing to do with impeachment, Crazy Nancy said the impeachment was about the Constitution.

Ill say there is a constitutional crisis but not in the way she seems to think. She is thwarting the Constitution. The real assault to our democracy is lawmakers like Pelosi who brush aside facts to stay laser-focused on a partisan removal of a president because they dont like his politics or his tweets. If anybody needs to be impeached it is the corrupt Democrat Party leadership in the House of Representatives.

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In April Speaker Pelosi said that a glass of water with a letter D next to it would win an election in a safe congressional district like the one represented by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is being opposed by a number of Republicans. Safe bet is she gets re-elected in New Yorks 14th Congressional District since there are 214,750 registered Democratic voters in the district and only 110,000 registered Republicans.

So when actor Rob Schneider read a Tweet made by Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the Lefts ignorance of Stalins tyranny, he responded with: Unfortunately, people in California would vote for a bowl of s*** if it had D next to it.

Sad but true.

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The Uber safety report is out. While most rides go off safely, the report should give pause for anyone climbing in a private car driven by an Uber, or Lyft driver.

During the years 2017 and 2018, Uber rides experienced 5,981 reports of sexual assault lodged against them, and of those, 464 were rape allegations.

The report showed that about 92 percent of the victims of rape were riders and about seven percent of the victims were drivers. Women and female-identifying individuals made up 89 percent of the victims with men and male-identifying individuals comprising about 8 percent of victims.

Just be careful out there.

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If youre curious about what were getting for the money we spend on education, look no further than recently interviewed university students who thought President Trump was worse than Adolf Hitler, didnt recognize Joseph Stalin, and ranked Mark Zuckerberg as better than Jesus.

The college in question of course is one in California Cal State Northridge. Without providing names, Will Witt showed students pictures of Barack Obama, Jesus, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Mark Zuckerberg, and asked the undergrads to rank them from worst to best.

A number of students presented didnt recognize Joseph Stalin, the major 20th-century figure and Soviet leader who murdered approximately 20 million people.

One black student freely admitted that he ranked Obama highly because he was a black president and then said, black power. When asked What was your favorite thing about Obama? the student replied, Being black.

The same black student and the female student at5 his side agreed that Trump was worse than Hitler and when asked why the young man said that Trump was childish while the young lady stated that the president wanted to eliminate food stamps. When questioned about whether that trimming government expenses were worse than killing six million Jews, the young lady said, he (Hitler) did that?

And you wonder why we get the elected officials we get in California?

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The CBS headline left me scratching my head: California becomes first state to ban discrimination against natural hair.

What was this about? There he was, Gov. Newsom signing another piece of earth-shakering legislation with that silly grin on his face.

The first paragraph: A new law signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes California the first state to ban discrimination against black students and employees over their natural hairstyles. The authors of this new law say women with kinky and curly hair are sometimes subject to unequal treatment, and can even be viewed as inferior.

Specifically the legislation was based on Chastity Jones who fought a lawsuit for 10 years when her employer took back a job offer at an Alabama call center because Jones refused to cut her hair. She had dreadlocks and wouldnt cut them off.

Its news to me that dreadlocks are natural. Dreadlocks take a lot of work.Dreadlocks also dont look professional, thats why some companies ban them.

By the way, author of the bill state Sen. Holly Mitchell wears tiny strands of dreadlocks in her hair and my first reaction seeing them was they look like earthworms dangling about her head. Not cute.

My own daughter-in-law years before she married my son was hired from McDonalds because she dyed her hair pink. She didnt sue.

Newsom signed the bill, saying: Theres a human element to this. We dont want to diminish people, we dont want to demean people We have to own up to the sins of the past.

What sins of the past is he referring to? Slavery? This issue of dreadlocks has nothing to do with race. I bet all the sloven employees who come to work wearing Phyllis Diller style just-got-up-in-the-morning hair are beaming that they are now protected from being fired.

So now that California and New York bastions of liberalism have passed the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace) Act, maybe Newsom will pass a law saying people can show up to professional offices in pajamas and torn jeans.

Maybe Newsom can do something worthwhile like a statewide ban on homeless people crapping or urinating on the sidewalks and in our parks. Or maybe lowering taxes since hes sitting on a huge surplus. Or maybe get to the business of lowering construction costs.

This column is the opinion of Jeff Benziger, and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The Ceres Courier or Morris Newspaper Corp. of CA. How do you feel about this? Let Jeff know at jeffb@cerescourier.com

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Al Sharpton and his troubled relationship with money was recently in the news again. Last month, the New York Post reported on the reluctance of New York authorities to investigate suspicious financial behavior at his nonprofitthe National Action Networkthat pays him $1 million annually.

According to the Post:

There are certain things that are universally true in New York: the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west, the subway is late and no one wants to pick a fight with Al Sharpton, said one top Democratic insider. Wheres the political benefit to doing it?

Similarly, BizPac Review poked around and revealed that a $1 million salary is roughly triple the going rate for somebody running a nonprofit the size of the National Action Network.

These issues and more are covered in the extensive Influence Watch profile of Al Sharpton.

For example, there is the little-reported matter of him being an informant for the FBI against New York mafia crime family members. The potentially less than honorable reasons for that were covered in a recent CRC magazine profile of Sharpton: The Lefts Street Boss.

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On Tuesdays broadcast of MSNBCs Deadline, network host Al Sharptonargued Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had to drop out of the 2020 presidential campaign in part because of racism and sexism.

Sharptonsaid, First of all, I think that she ran a great race. I think that she is a great candidate.

He continued, But she is dealing with an environment where you have for the first time, that you have these kind of rules that are different.

Host Nicolle Wallace asked, What rules?

Sharpton said, Certain amount of money, certain amount of polling to be in the debates. And when you have a Tom Steyer who is fine, raised great issues, but this woman is a U.S. senator, was attorney general of the state and was a district attorney. Steyer could come in and buy commercials and up his polling. And I think that the real problem the Democrats are going to have is the next debate, you have no black on that stage. The Democratic Party cannot have a stage where black voters do not see themselves reflected.

He continued, Where they dont see themselves reflected and expect that well come out and vote in big numbers. You must have had black turnout, but we dont turn up in the debate? There is something that is wrong with that, and some of us are not going yo be quiet about it.

Wallace asked if Sharpton believed Harris was treated badly by the press?

Sharpton said, I think she was definitely treated badly by the press. Ive never seen a candidate taken apart the way she was in the last several days. Yes, there are organizational problems. Yes, there were financial problems. You have people on that debate stage with no organization at all, and the press is not writing about it.

He continued, I think again a lot of assessment has to be made how the media dealt with it, we have to look at the rules.

He added, What are you going to say to black voters when they look at that stage, and nobody like them is there? The Democratic Party will have to look at that and deal with that because that is a problem.

Wallace asked, I worked for Sarah Palin. I carefully watched and covered the campaign of Hillary Clinton. I do think that women are still held to different standards as candidates. They have to have a well-run campaign, never mind that Donald Trump didnt have a campaign. He literally flew around with Hope ironing his pants. They have to be perfect on the stump, which I never saw her stumble. Joe Biden is beloved, and he is never perfect on the stump. I think there is a gender piece here that we still suck at talking about.

Sharpton said, Youre right.

He added, Women are held to a different standard, and black women especially are held to a different standard.

Wallace said, And black women though, by the way, voted for Trump in the lowest numbers. So they can say that they told us so.

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WASHINGTON Civil Rights Activist Rev. Al Sharpton said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats proceeding with impeachment is "not partisan, it's patriotic."

"I think that they've done the right thing moving forward. I think the evidence is there and I think that they've made a clear case," Sharpton said before the Urban One Honors, hosted by Radio One, where he received a leadership award on Thursday evening.

When it comes to a trial taking place in the Senate, Sharpton said that "the question is are they party first or are they patriots first? Are they going to stand up for what's right for the country? Can you set a precedent where a sitting president will use congressionally approved funds to ask a foreign government to interfere in our election by smearing his potential opponent? That's what's on trial here."

Sharpton, host of PoliticsNation on MSNBC, was also asked for his opinion of "cancel culture."

"I believe that we need to not cancel anybody. I think everybody has a place. Everybody ought to celebrate who they are -- that's what we're here about tonight. We shouldn't have to conform to anything and anybody and feel that we're going to be canceled out," he said. "We need to move the boundaries no matter who and what we are -- that's what God made us to be, we ought to celebrate that."

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Journalists grew concerned about a political partys supposed racism this week. Only this time the media were complaining about the Democratic Party.

What took them so long?

Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Kamala Harris of California ended her campaign for the nations highest office, likely resulting in an all-white group of candidates appearing on stage for the sixth televised debate of Democratic presidential contenders Dec. 19.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is African-American, went off about it on MSNBCs All In with Chris Hayes.

We're spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially we're still fighting to get on it, but could have six people with no diversity whatsoever," he complained. (Democrats used to consider gender part of diversity. Oh well.)

Booker barely scratched the surface of the problem. A series of controversies had reporters covering stories they ordinarily try to ignore or downplay. The scandals involved top-tier candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

But the Harris narrative finally captivated a news media that had eagerly forgotten the controversy regarding Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northams college yearbook photo showing one person in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan garb.

NBC News carried a story headlined: With Sen. Kamala Harris' exit, Democrats can't avoid a tough conversation about diversity.

NPR agreed, asking: #DemsSoWhite? Kamala Harris' Exit Raises Hard Questions About Race And Power.

It was an unusual spot for journalists who typically depict those on the right as racist and those on the left as enlightened.

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and current presidential candidate Julin Castro blamed the news media for what Buzzfeed described as treating candidates of color differently.

To me, they held her to a different standard, a double standard, to other campaigns, Castro said.

Castro criticized The Washington Post, New York Times and Politico for writing very gossipy-sounding big articles trashing the campaign.

The Root was upset that Kamala Harris Wasn't Allowed to Fail Up Like a White Boy. Senior Reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr said the media fixated on her previous job as a lock em up prosecutor and attorney general.

Starr added that former Vice President Joe Bidens own background is far worse and Biden is still running. If Harris is a cop, Biden is the police chief, he wrote.

And MSNBC host Al Sharpton added: Women are held to a different standard and black women especially."

The Democrats problems with race didnt stop there.

Warren once more addressed her phony past claims to be a Native American. She spoke at a presidential forum on Native American issues, according to The New York Times. She offered a direct, public apology for the harm she caused with her past claims of Native American ancestry and pledged to uplift Native people as president.

I shouldnt have done it. I am not a person of color, Warren told the audience, according to Bloomberg News.

Journalists have repeatedly defended Warren on this issue and bashed President Trump for nicknaming the senator Pocahontas because of her lie.

The New York Times called Trumps comment a slur and a racially incendiary jibe. The Times Magazine devoted more than 8,000 words to profiling Warren, but included just one paragraph to her about her pivotal controversy.

MSNBCs Morning Joe Host Joe Scarborough had called the presidents criticism of Warren coded racism and an appeal to the white nationalist wing of, of this movement.

Meanwhile, a staffer whose tweets contain anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynistic and racist language is no longer with the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, according to ABC News.

The Washington Free Beacon revealed how new Deputy Director of Constituency Organizing Darius Khalil Gordons past on Twitter was filled with a ton of things that I wont quote here.

Of course, traditional outlets didnt discover the comments, so kudos to the Free Beacon for doing actual research.

New candidate Michael Bloomberg was even caught in the controversy. His opponent Booker also found it stunning when he learned Bloomberg had referred to him as "well-spoken. It was a gaffe reminiscent of Bidens comment about then-candidate Sen. Barack Obama as the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.

Not to be left out, the Buttigieg campaign had a gathering of African American supporters in South Bend, reported NBC News. The kicker was that Buttigieg was interrupted by a man wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt.

Liberal racism, sexism and anti-Semitism have been the donkey in the room for a long time. The media were finally forced to confront it, at least briefly.

Nancy Pelosi blasts reporter

Journalists are quick to defend anyone in the media who is criticized by the president. But when a reporter is criticized by the Democratic speaker of the House, the rules change.

Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter James Rosen asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California a simple question: Do you hate the president, Madam Speaker?

Pelosi, who has bashed Rosen before as Mr. Republican Talking Points, used the opportunity to claim she had the moral high ground.

As a Catholic, I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me, she said.

The news media, who love it when Pelosi opposes the pope and the Catholic Church on abortion, rallied around her faith when it suited them. Both CBS and NBC promoted an identical Pelosi quote: Dont mess with me.

Imagine the media reaction to a Republican politician calling out a reporter, pointing a finger directly at the journalist and telling him Dont mess with me.

Actually, you dont have to imagine it. We see it daily when the press rallies in defense against every criticism they get from the right.

USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page described Pelosi as fierce.

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NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell took Pelosis side readily. Mitchell said that the speaker, as a person of deep faith, which we know to be the case with her, really took offense at anyone questioning.

Mitchell didnt seem to recall that Pelosis deep faith has strident disagreement with the Catholic Church on abortion.

CNN loved it as well. Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin described Pelosi comments as one of the many iconic Nancy Pelosi moments from this period.

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MSNBC talking heads were just as excited. Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski was thrilled that Pelosi went right to her Catholic roots.

Joe Scarborough mocked the reporter for daring to ask a question. Maybe James Rosen would like to ask Donald Trump, do you hate children, or do you hate Jesus?

The confrontation was a reminder of how faith is both a sword and a shield for the press. They wield it against anyone they disagree with and use it to defend those they support.

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