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My July fund-raising campaign to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black is now over. I want to thank all those who so generously donated or subscribed, especially those who have become regular supporters. I can't do this without your help. I also find it increasingly hard to express how much your support means to me. God bless you all!

 

The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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California now has the highest poverty rate in the nation.

Success! California now has the highest poverty rate in the nation.

California’s state legislature and governorship have both been held by the Democrats for years. Both have repeatedly raised taxes. Both have repeatedly failed to balance the state’s budget. And both have been and continue to be eager to increase government regulation on the state’s citizenry. What could go wrong?

Update: In related news, Los Angeles’ film and television industry has lost 16,100 jobs in past seven years, mostly due to businesses leaving the state.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • JGL

    The Coo Koos nest syndrome, and nurse Rachet is nowhere to be found.

    America, like a child who needs and craves discipline and structure has chosen to be spanked, we need it, we have forgotten our foundation

    and must be punnished.

    Prepare for punnishment !

  • Rene Borbon

    I fled California twice, first in 2006, and again in 2008 — after facing rising income and property taxes. I also found the schools in California to be inferior to Texas, where I briefly lived in the early 1980s. I remember wanting to study calculus at a Los Angeles area high school in 1989 — and the school didn’t have nor could afford to buy me the textbook.

    I’ve noticed that California’s decline visually as well — it’s roads, buildings, and infrastructure are in decline.

  • wade

    i do not doubt it ! and everything that gets enforced in California is a Test Bed for everyone Elsewhere in this once Great Nation.

  • Welcome to the People’s Republic of Kalifornia.

  • Patrick

    But But But ……..

    I thought that Californians and their democrats in particular knew everything.

    I thought they could make anything work.

    I guess that last republican in the state is causing all this trouble.

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