Two thumbs up!

How devilishly ironic! Just take a look at the LJ CHRISTMAS Parade (http://www.ljparade.com/). DEFINITELY not a religiously neutral name. Do the major sponsors:

PARADE SPONSOR Audrey S. Geisel, SD Foundation, Dr. Seuss Fund

MAJOR SPONSORS La Jolla Management Company • The Albergram • La Jolla Country Market • Sycamore Court • Village Corner • The Wall Street Building Merrill Lynch Wealth Management San Diego Board of Supervisors Funded by Supervisor Ron Roberts

DIVISION SPONSORS Bache Family John Barbey Capital Growth Properties John & Karin Donaldson Peter Farrell Florence Riford La Jolla Community Fund at The San Diego Foundation Cindy Greatrex La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club La Valencia Hotel McGrory Family Fund

ARTS & EDUCATION SPONSORS Ray & Gina Ellis Citrus Public Relations Kiwanis Club of La Jolla Preuss Family Foundation

YOUTH SPONSORS Bill & Claudia Allen June Ash Bank of America Blanchard, Krasner & French Casey & Tiffany Brown California Bank & Trust Harry & Valerie Cooper Gail Forbes Hudson & Mary Drake James & Joy Furby Mike & Julie Furby Marathon Construction Corporation La Jolla Music Scott & Betsy McClendon James & Elspeth Myer Price Family Charitable Fund Robert A. Collins Company Glenda Rothberg Don & Linda Swortwood Torrey Pines Bank Ruth Yansic

... realize that since 2005 there has been a calling to switch CHRISTMAS to COMMUNITY in the parade's title? Are these people still living in the 1950's? Is there an attitude of "we are the enclave" of La Jolla? Does the label "Hoity-Toity" apply to us? Should we wonder why Wisconsin-based law professor Linda Greene had a difficult time of it? Teddy Rodosovich, LJDIG (La Jolla Diversity and Inclusiveness Group) OBTW, give a check to what every other major event around the Winter Solstice calls itself.

Here's an article I wrote in early February on UC affirmative action efforts. There are stats there worth reviewing:

"The 2014 California University Jew and Asian Student Admission Quota Act" by Richard Rider

A misguided Associated Press "story" says: "In 1995, minority students accounted for 38 percent of high school graduates and 21 percent of those entering as University of California freshmen, Hernandez [a principal proponent of the bill] said. By 2004, they made up 45 percent of high school graduates but 18 percent of incoming UC freshmen, he said, adding the gap is growing."

But go look at the official stats of the demographics of 2013 incoming UC freshman: http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2013/fall_2013_admissions_table3.pdf (end of the table)

So, what's the percentage of incoming freshmen who are white (INCLUDING the vague "other" category)? 28.1% -- well BELOW the percentage of whites in California (42.3%). And BTW, note that this table shows that the percentage of the selectively designated "oppressed" minority admissions is NOT shrinking -- it's remarkably level. The drop they ballyhoo is the ending in 1996 of the disastrous and discriminatory quota system that existed before we passed Prop 209 to make such discrimination illegal.

This bill is not about countering white privilege. It's about setting up restrictive DE FACTO quotas for ASIANS -- which constitute a (supposedly evil) disproportionately high 36% of admissions vs. 14.9% of the CA population. Apparently these Asian kids "act white" FAR better than even WHITE kids act white! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California

To make the numbers being used to justify the bill favorable, the affirmative action (not quotas, of course) sponsors made the Asians minority part of the "white" majority (which is not a majority). Ipso presto, discrimination abounds!!

Such racist dishonesty is breathtaking -- until one realizes that, well, this IS California. It's okay to discriminate against Asians in the Golden State -- just as it was once acceptable to establish informal admission quotas on high-performing Jews at Ivy League colleges a century ago.

SAN DIEGO U-T BID TO UNDO BAN ON USING RACE AT SCHOOLS State Senate OKs putting affirmative action on ballot

By Associated Press 12:01 a.m.Jan. 31, 2014

To read the article, go to the link: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/31/tp-bid-to-undo-ban-on-using-race-at-schools/

NOTE: Here's an aspect of the anti-Prop 209 bill that most will overlook. Included in this new stealth quota system bill is a redress of the longstanding grievance against gender discrimination. It's gone on for generations and continues even today -- ask any liberal.

But here's the thing: The bill will require what amounts to discrimination against the gender that is too frequently admitted -- you guessed it -- WOMEN.

In 2010 the UC system admitted 95,403 women and only 84,178 men -- a PRIMA FACIE case confirming discrimination. I look forward to the innovative progressive implementation of this solution to gender discrimination. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jan/31/tp-bid-to-undo-ban-on-using-race-at-schools/