Okay, California...

...this is your chance, and it's perhaps your last chance, to prove to the rest of America, nay, to prove to the entire world that you are not dumb, stupid and ignorant. It is an accepted fact that Californians are a bit off the wall and kooky, but up to this point I have defended your previously undemonstrated innate intelligence. I've reasoned that the nuts and the kooks have to have a place to go, too, and California was available. But this Gloria Allred tear-jerking "Latina" maid thingy-ma-bob has got to be obvious even to the oblivious who migrated West and set up Hollywood.

So former governor Moonbeam wants to run your state again, does he? And the liberals are trying to convince you that this $23.00 an hour illegal alien maid debacle makes Jerry Brown the appropriate person to do that, right?

Now all you nuts and kooks out there just stop a minute and take a deep breath and try to think. How, on God's green earth, does this pathetic circus show do that? Just one fact that made any sense at all to a clear thinker would suffice. Just one.

Questions for your consideration: why was it bad for Ms Whitman to hire a Latina, as Nicky Diaz the maid seems to want to be labeled now, and pay her $ 23.00 an hour for 15 hours a week of work? (Keeping in mind that minimum wage is hovering just above $ 7.00 for the rest of the country, and working only 15 hours a week is patently pathetic.)

Although Ms Allred probably believes that she has scored some points for Mr. Moonbeam's candidacy, how did this little drama help the Latinas, and I'll throw in the Latinos, as well, to find work in California? Wouldn't employers now be a little leery to hire them even if they had the legal documentation required to work in this country? I wouldn't, would you? And be honest. You could do everything, at least everything in your power, to do the thing right and legal and still you are wrong. Not just wrong, but hounded by lawyers wrong.

When Ms Whitman found out Ms Nicky Diaz was illegal, she had to fire her to remain within the law, but she still did not report Ms Nicky to the authorities, thus allowing her to remain in the United States. That action seems misguided to clear thinkers who want to control illegal immigration, but to Californians who are determined to have all and sundry pop through the border and take over the state that probably should sound like a kindness. Does it sound kinder than Mr. Brown's agency that checks "twice a month" to make sure all his workers are legal? To these atrophied ears it does.

So I am totally confused about what California wants or what it thinks it needs. But it's not my place to decide. Unfortunately, that decision is up to you as residents of that state. If it were up to me, the entire populace out their would be spanked and sent to bed without supper. And Gloria Allred would be facing the wall with a mangled piece of chewing gum attached to her nose.

But that's just me.