Slamland 2

Lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown refused to allocate state funds for an early presidential primary. This is from the LA Times and the discussion is here.

We bought a ticket in the nosebleed section because Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature refused to spend an estimated $100 million for a separate presidential primary early in the nominating process

Instead, they combined presidential balloting with the regular state primary on June 5, long after the Republican nomination surely will have been nailed down, most likely by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

That means Republican voters in the nation’s most populous state will probably have no voice in whom the party nominates for president. They can only shout a meaningless cheer or catcall. — Los Angeles Times

— Wait a hold it! Full tilt STOP! —

What’s wrong with this picture? There is no provision in the US Constitution for primary elections! Primary elections only provide the means to falsely propagate the the tyranny of the two-party system. Why should any state support ANY primary with scarce tax dollars? Each party should have and fund its own primary, should they even need one. I challenge anyone to find one sentence, in the US Constitution, that supports the concept of primary elections!

Mirrored from The Slamlander.

The sale of the world-famous Chrystal Cathedral to the Orange County diocese of the Roman Catholic Church is really showing just how many foreigners have moved in since the 60’s. These are people that have no sense of history of the place that they moved to and Nicole Santa Cruz shows her ignorance, as well as that fact that she was a less than indifferent student in primary school.

When Brown succeeded Bishop Norman McFarland in 1998, there were 600,000 Catholics in Orange County. There are now 1.2 million.

That growth is not so much an increase in market-share rather, it represents an huge increase in population. There was a time when the entire Southland was 100% Roman Catholic. It was largely after the conquest by Colonel Fremont and the influx of gold prospectors, in 1849, that Protestantism took root. The Church has always been strong, even when it played low-profile in the light of the protestant conquerors from the eastern seaboard.

While I no longer consider myself a Catholic, I was raised in the diocese of Orange. This is really a resurgence of Catholicism and not a growth.

Mirrored from The Slamlander.