Cal Con Con is an initiative of hyper-progressives that want to hold a second Constitutional Convention.

We believe that when a Community is in integrity with itself, it becomes natural to prioritize and protect People and Planet… from there, we believe that Peace is naturally restored. Our initiative celebrates the dignity of life and wishes to protect the delicate relationships inherent within it.

Although we believe in a free market economy, we also believe that there are many alternate kinds of economy that can, and do, belong in a shared society. Diversity is natural and powerful. We see the advantage of Time Banking, Job Sharing, Profit Sharing, Community Stakeholders, Cooperative Living, Cooperative trading, Organic Rural and Urban Farming, Renewable Energy Sources and transitioning away from extraction models, with immediate effect. We believe this is the only way to mitigate Climate Crisis and secure the potential for a livable future with our Planet.

We believe all humans – and all living species – should be able to rely on clean water, air, and food. We also believe that people should have reasonable and affordable access to reliable healthcare, superior education, and a home: regardless of race, creed, gender identity, age or religion. We need to restore our planet’s healthy systems to make it safe for inhabitation again, to restore home to all ecological systems and communities.

This is our shared future. We are living a shared story. And we are gliding toward a precipice. Our initiative seeks to recognize and restore the dignity of all life by finding new, bold and inspiring ways to collaborate across many rivers to support this one truth: that all life must be respected if we are to survive.

It is our vision that we change the Constitution of the USA to protect civil liberties, restore and secure our healthy ecosystems, and return to a state of gratitude, and generosity. We need a future that is livable and safe for all future generations. We would love to see this policy adopted in all developing Countries.

That is some kooky bullshit right there.  It is totally unfeasible to somehow mesh a free market with total Communism and radical environmentalism, and get anything other than poverty and famine as a result.

But by golly, they are going to try.

They even have a new Bill of Rights they want to implement.

The Earth, its ecosystems and other species must be protected from the irresponsible use of the powers which people, as individuals and as groups, have at their disposal. Thus the exercise of informed responsibility becomes as necessary a part of the use of humankind’s individual and collective powers as the enjoyment of rights.

​Oh goody, collectivism.  

Civil Rights:

1) Protect the people’s right to privacy from surveillance without due process, related to proveable emergency concerns that such people are verifiably a danger to the public.

Okay, I’m all for the current 4th Amendment.  The whole “proveable emergency concerns” is some scary language.

2) Protect all people’s right to be joined in a mutually consenting marriage, no matter the gender or sexuality of each party.

Was Obergefell and the 14th Amendment not good enough?  I’m concerned that this is going to pave the way to child sex grooming and other perversion.

3) Provide free, reliable and safe Universal healthcare for all citizens, regardless of medical history.

Nope.  The Soviet Union couldn’t do this with food.  Every national healthcare system in Europe is bankrupt.  This will fail.

4) Ensure that all US Citizens are legally protected and actively safe from harm from people owning guns or weapons that can cause willful or accidental damage to themselves, or others – individual or collective.

They want to put the collective punishment of gun owners in the United States Constitution.  It is impossible for the goverment to protect all the people all the time.  Police can only act as a deterrent to crime.  People will still get killed with this in place since we know bad people will do bad things.  Now they want to make sure that when a criminal shoots someone, collectively, we are to be prosecuted because we own guns.

5) Abolish Electoral College.

Nobody should ever get elected to president if California doesn’t agree.  California gets to play Kingmaker.

They want slavery and collective punishment in the US Constitution, by virtue of flowery, feel-good language.

They have a whole set of other ideas, I won’t cover all of them, but a few stick out to me as being hyper-repressive.

Wages: All things being equal, require all people of equal skill to receive equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender, age, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or race.

So we’re going to have to set up a MinPay to quantify that?  I believe in equality, don’t get me wrong, but once you do this you have to come up with a universal metric and that is impossible.

Protecting the dignity of all life:

Nature’s Rights: Declare that Nature is a freely living being with inalienable rights, and that no individual, business entity, government, “owner” or organization shall inflict violence or servitude on her.

Nature is not mere property but instead does have rights of its own.

This is an end to logging, farming, housing development.  I can’t build a factory because a lawyer representing the near by forest will sue me on behalf of the forest.  Welcome to the stone age.

Render it illegal to patent life, in perpetuity.

Render it illegal to terminate life’s ability to renew itself, in perpetuity.​

There goes the green revolution.  The ensuing famine will kill millions.

Render it illegal to patent life, in perpetuity.

State Independence:

Create a clear and reasonable path for States to achieve complete independence from the United States should any state so chose.

The People of the State of California hereby instruct their state elected officials to communicate with and support any other American state that is interested in calling a constitutional convention regardless of that American states’ reasons for calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention, with the intent to get enough American states to call for an Article V Constitutional Convention so that it happens.

The People of the State of California further instruct their state elected officials that if America does not have an Article V constitutional convention by December 25 2019, and if that convention has not changed the constitution of America to include the intent of the language presented in this initiative in topic 5 of section 3, entitled “Protecting the dignity of all life” also by December 25 2019, then California, in order to act on the will of the people to protect their future and their children’s future, will place on the ballot for a vote on November 3, 2020, a question asking “Do you want California to secede from America?”

After putting slavery, famine, and collective punishment into the Constitution, please get the fuck out.

Collaboratively disempower ethically compromised people and entities.

They want mob justice.

This is a compete perversion of everything America stands for.  This is about collective rights, not individual rights.  This is about crushing innovation and development.

It is an idea that if you just constrain enough of the rights of enough of the people, you can achieve utopia.

They wan’t to cause an American Holodomor.

They use all the liberal language they can to cover the fact that their goal is progress through mass graves.

More information about Starbucks “Color Brave” training as come out.

For some reason, the British press has been covering this much better than the American media.

One of the things we learned is that the rapper/activist Common was one of the people featured in the training video as a “guide.”

If that name sounds vaguely familiar to you, it’s because Common caused a stir when he was invited to the Obama White House by the First Lady because of his anti-police and black supremacist attitude and lyrics.

Common is friends with Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, and was invited to be part the Starbucks reeducation video.   Birds of the progressive feather, flock together.

The training was a day in a Starbucks run Room 101.

‘Becoming color brave’ was listed in Starbucks’ agenda, as was ‘seeing difference as a positive’ and ‘reflecting on what belonging feels like’.

This actually sounds horrifying.  This is “diversity is our strength” on steroids.  Diversity is not our strength.  Diversity has led to violence all over the world.  Unity in a common idea – liberty and justice for all – is our strength.  This flips that on its head.

‘We want to uplift others, we exist to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, one neighborhood at a time,’ Starbucks said in a new mission statement.

I just want a cup of coffee, not proselytizing from a progressive cult.

Staff watched a number of videos featuring talks from Schultz, Johnson as well as rapper Common and Starbucks EVP Rossann Williams among others.

They were also asked to watch the a video by filmmaker Stanley Nelson about the history of access to public spaces for African Americans.

Was any Starbucks employee who was forced to take this training alive when Jim Crow was enforced?  My dad was 11 years old when Jim Crow laws were abolished by the Civil Rights Act.  There is a good chance most of these Starbucks employees are two generations away from that (i.e., their parents weren’t born when Jim Crow was abolished).

This seems more like America bashing and progressive guilt than a useful exercise.

Staff also listened to a slew of scenarios about real customers and asked if they would have done anything different in the situation.

Scenarios included a woman in dirty sweatpants lingering near the retail cups, a woman with a dirty cup asking for a refill, confusion about a customer’s gender, and dealing with a customer with a thick accent.

I need more details.  I used to work security.  Details are critical.  “Profiling” gets a bad rap, but it’s a good thing if it’s based on experience and not bigotry.

What does “dirty sweatpants” mean.  An athlete on her way home from a hard workout?  A homeless person?  Somebody who had just shoveled snow or done other yard work?  I need contextual details.  This is why I would have failed that training.

“Welcome to Starbucks, may I take your order?” is pretty gender neutral.  Is that sufficient or must I call myself a cis-shit?

Will I get fired if I say “I’m sorry, I can you please repeat your order?”  Is that no longer the polite thing to do?

Why do I have a feeling that common sense and common courtesy are not Woke enough for Starbucks?

At one point during the training, Williams gave an example of how the company now wanted staff to deal with disruptive customers.

Williams specifically referenced Starbucks’ new ‘Third Place Policy’, in which anyone can stay in the store or use the restroom – even if they don’t purchase anything.

The EVP said she had observed a barista that approached a customer who was using uncomfortable language at a store last week.

‘You are in our store every day, and we love that this is your third place, but from one human to another human, the language that you are using is making other customers uncomfortable,’ Williams said the barista told the customer.

‘So either you have to change your behavior, and stay and be a part of our third place, or I’m going to have to ask you to leave, and you can come back at a later time, when you feel like you can be a part of our third place.’

‘And in fact if you want to go have a seat, I’ll bring you over a cup of water, just to make sure that it’s a great rest of your day.’

Oh great, bad behavior is now rewarded.  Just how much of a shit does a person have to be to get a free cup of coffee?

If I take a dump on the floor will I get a croissant?  Probably not, because I’m white.

This was followed by some naval gazing.

Employees were also given a ‘personal notebook’ during the training, which the company wanted them to use to help address implicit biases.

‘Biases are not always easy to identify. They make us feel exposed. Maybe even critical of ourselves. But they’re worth reflecting on,’ one page reads.

‘Reflection is the crucial first step to navigating the differences we see and feel around certain people.’

Here are the questions to reflect on.  According to the rules, if a scenario doesn’t apply to you, leave it blank.

1. Noticed your racial identity.
2. Noticed how your race affected your beauty standards.
3. Felt your accent impacted people’s perception of your intelligence or competence.
4. Altered your communication style to avoid playing into stereotypes.
5. Had a friend of a different race that regularly visited your home.
6. Felt distracted at work because of external events related to race.
7. Had a senior role model in your organization with a similar racial identity as your own.
8. Went to work with your natural hair without comments or questions from others.
9. Felt your race affected your ability to build a rapport with your manager.

Holy shit, some of those questions.  What the fuck world does Starbucks live in?

1. Am I a white guy or a Jew?  I don’t know which intersectional progressives hate me more for.  Either way, I don’t like having to think about it.
2. As in how I look or who I think is hot?
3. I got nothing
4. What stereotypes?
5. I grew up in Miami.  I was the white kid in my group of friends.  I never stopped to think of it until Starbucks made me.  Thanks you racist assholes.
6. You mean like how the media has been covering the Gaza attacks?
7. Does this matter?  Seriously?  “I failed because I never had a role model that looked like me” is a shitty fucking excuse.  They don’t make movies about people like that.  They make them about people like Jackie Robinson.
8. I’ll get to this.
9. This should be totally irrelevant.  If there is discrimination, report it.

This “color brave” shit is insane.  I much prefer the color blind.  Everything is “focus on race.”  I don’t want to.

In a second set of questions employees were asked to imagine different situations in which they were meeting, for the first time, someone new who was their race or of a different race.

Why the fuck does it matter at all?  It doesn’t.

They were then asked to rank on a five-point scale how easy or hard they would find each situation with both the person who was their race and the person who was a different race.

“How much of a bigot are you on a 1-5 scale?”  Again, it shouldn’t matter but Starbucks is going to make me think about it.

Situations included talking about race without making ‘the other person feel threatened’, voicing dissatisfaction without being told you are ‘too angry’, or talking about childhood and not expecting others to assume you ‘grew up in poverty’.

Jesus… Starbucks management is filled with bigots.

Starbucks concluded by saying the training day was a ‘start’ and ‘not perfect – because we are all human. And we are all learning.’

This was far from perfect.  In fact, it sucked.  This is a fucking disaster.  If they do it again, Starbucks is not learning shit.

So this brings me to a point.

Black Hair.

Apparently black hair is way fucking political.

Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics.

Black Panther, black women, and the politics of black hair.  Black Panther is not only a good movie but a celebration of black women, and black hair.

The Politics of Black Hair.

This Now has entire web series on black hair.

I can’t speak for all white people, but I want to make this point crystal clear.

I cannot explain just how little, as a white person, I care about your hair.  I don’t give a fuck about it.  It grows out of the top of your head.  Done.

Every time I hear the hair thing, I just want to say “not this shit again.”

Here are the conditions in which I care about your hair, and this is universal (it goes for people of all races):

1. You work around rotating machinery or flame/heat sources and your hair can get caught in something (I’ve seen that, it rips out scalp) or can catch on fire (I’ve seen that too, hair goes up fast).
2. You are required to wear PPE, e.g. a hard hat or respirator, and your hair interferes with it.  As a Jew, I’m supposed to wear a beard.  When I had to seal a SCBA mask because I worked in a refinery, I shaved.
3. You have to wear cleanliness and/or sterility coverings, e.g. work in a clean room, food prep, surgical theater, and your hair cannot be properly covered to prevent contamination.

That’s it.  If your grooming standards are a safety and/or hygiene risk, comply or leave.  Other than that I don’t fucking care.

Same goes for dress codes.  Skin tight clothes do not protect you from spills, heat, or sharp objects.  Overly baggy stuff can get snagged.  I don’t want to have you wash you out of my machinery because your clothes got caught in a press.

If you don’t work in an environment like that, your hair is none of my business.

When I read or see or hear another “the statement my hair is making…” article I just want to say “you and your hair can shut the fuck up.”

Do your job, do it well, do it safely.  That’s all I ask.

I do not want to care, or even think, about your race.  I mean that sincerely.

Steel doesn’t give a shit about the color of my skin.  The hardness or toughness it attains is a result of the heat treat I specify, not the way I wear my hair.

If the material doesn’t meet spec it’s not good, regardless of my skin tone.

Rockwell hardness isn’t racist.

That’s the standard I want to hold people to.  On time, on budget, to spec.

Starbucks is going to make me care about race.  I don’t want to, for the love of God, can this bullshit die already?

In not, that Starbucks will have to.  Maybe a billion dollar business going belly up on its own progressive bigotry will teach them this lesson.  The problem is, I’m afraid it won’t.

No idea what may have led to the guy losing his mind and pulling the knife. The driver was incredibly lucky that the car with the dash camera had backed away enough for him to make an escape  after the “misguided” member of society breached the window on the passenger side.  According to the article in the Daily Mail, the owner was unharmed and recovered his vehicle once the aggressor left the area.

I am sure the perpetrator, after consideration and deep soul search, decided to turn in his knife to the nearest knife amnesty bins located across the Once-Great Britain.

Hat Tip Brad W

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A civilian shot a suspected armed robber after witnessing the robbery while in the drive-thru lane at a restaurant.
On Saturday, police said 60-year-old Steve Rodriguez, who was masked, entered the restaurant with a black revolver and demanded money from the employees, CBS Los Angeles reports. Police said a drive-thru customer in a Honda Accord was stopped in the restaurant’s drive-thru lane by the window and witnessed the robbery happening.
Police said someone in the Accord shot the robber twice in the upper torso before he managed to flee from the scene

Video: Restaurant customer shoots armed robber through drive-thru window

This one is a bit eerie for me, allow me to explain. I am trying to constantly run the “What happens if…?” game when I am out of the house.  What if there is an armed robbery when I am buying groceries at this particular Publix? What if there is a man coming in my dentist’s office and starts beating the daylights out of the hygienist? Do I run? Do I hide, Do I intervene? Some will find it paranoid, but it has helped me come up with different tactics and changes of behavior to avoid problems and preplanned responses (as much as you can pre-plan) in case there is no choice but action.

A couple of weeks ago, I went hunting for tacos at my neighborhood Bell and used the drive thru. While waiting for the food to arrive, I looked inside and realized that I had a clear line of sight to the registers and my mind went “What if an armed robber was aiming a gun at the poor 16-year-old working the register and demanding the cash?”  I went through mentally work on the issue: Is the Bad Guy being cool? Is he acting desperate? Is he acting crazy? Do I intervene or do I drive away and call 911? Do I wait nearby and try to get the info on the robber and possible getaway vehicle? If I see that things are going to go bad and somebody most likely will get hurt, Do I really have a shot I can make with the particular firearm of the day?  What are the chances that right before I press the trigger, another kids gets in my line of fire?

And I will admit that sometimes I think the “What If” Game might be a bit silly and without real applications in life. Some would consider it “Gun Nut” Dirty Harry fantasies. But today, I see this video of a real event running along the lines I was thinking not so long ago and I kinda fell validated and reminds me that the Mind is the Weapon that needs to be kept lubricated and trained.

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