The California Barrel Company

a Novel

by

Jon Presco

Copyright 2019

After Berkeley Bill Bolagard defeats his arch enemy, Thomas Gideon, and finds the benevolent Woman of the Star at the core of this once malevolent computer, he and Monica get married and move into their old cottage in Berkeley where they both enjoy reading her father’s books in peace and quiet.

Then, one morning, while reading the newspaper, Bill’s peace of mind is disturbed when he reads an article  about a developer who is on a mission to scrub the bay area waterfront of all things that are old. The bay that Jack London came to adore, will be no more. Furthermore, this developer has formed a company, AA, Adam’s Abbreviation, that is condensing all literature, as well as movies, into a three minute read-view on a new smart phone called RIB. Rapid Intelligence Benefits.

This developer claims young people can receive all the benefits readers have enjoyed for a thousand years while riding BART, or, while flying to Europe to take in the sights of a foreign land without leaving the airport. The Happy Tourists are hooked up to Tour Simulators. One can take in all the sights in a few hours.

“Where are you?”

“I’m at the airport. I just got back from Europe! I had a ball!”

“Lucky you. I spent the weekend reading the complete works of Shakespeare for my college thesis.”

“You were always the smart one in the family.”

Bill heard Monica emerge from her bath.

“Monica, listen to this! I think I discovered a artificial lifeform that is fed artificial intelligence via a cellphone. Folks are becoming as smart as can be, but, there is no test! Everyone is agreeing not to be tested! What will they think of next?”

“How much do they charge per agreement?” Monica asked.

Bill cringed. Monica was always the smarter one. Pluss, she had been married to Thomas for twenty-two years, the greatest scam-artist of all time. She knew all his tricks.

“Let’s see. The Adam’s Apple App charges $5 dollars a Trip-Read.”

“That beats paying for a college tuition!”

Bill’s mathematical mind did some rapid calculations.

“If 20,000,000 million suckers bought ten degrees of quick&smart permission a month, that’s…………..?”

“Bill! Leave it alone! Haven’t your done enough for humanity?”

to be continued

https://rosamondpress.com/2011/08/31/california-barrel-compnay-bohemian-grove/

https://rosamondpress.com/2011/08/30/oltman-stuttmeister-genealogy/

Summoning The Muse of Sir Sterling London Joaquin Lord de Rosemond

Reading from ‘The Gideon Computer’

The Terrible Demise Of Young George Blank – September 3, 2011

0674, 5/17/05, 2:30 PM, 8C, 6784×4902 (423+3151), 100%, humbolt, 1/80 s, R49.7, G29.0, B61.2

I just found this in the parallel business world. William Broderick, the husband of Alice Stuttmeister, was the Vice President (a Director) of the California Barrel Company that was located in the Dogpatch, south of San Francisco, and Arcate in Humbolt County where the photograph of Melba and her grandfather is taken. The photo says it is her father, but, it is her grandfather, William Oltman Stuttmeister. I know this because according the Daryl Bulkley, William was very tall, and William Broderick, was short. That is how I remember him.

The President of Cal-Barrel, was Frederick Jacob Koster, who was a member of the Bohemian Club, as was Joaquin Miller, and George Stirling, seen in a traditional tent at the Grove Gathering. When Rosemary would show us the family photos, she would say this about our kin gathered in the redwoods of the Oakland Hills.

“Those are you Bohunk kin.”

Why Rosemary would say this, knowing the Prescos came from Bohemia in 1882, is puzzling. Was she once told they were Bohemian Bohos?

My father and I own the same facial features Will Stuttmeister does, who has a long face.

Jon Presco

http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Dogpatch

Credit: Bob Ecker

Cleanup is currently underway at the industrial area surrounding the old Potrero Power Plant site and adjacent shoreline. Draft plans were recently created and unveiled for a 29-acre Central Waterfront site at 1201 Illinois Street (bounded by Illinois, the Bay, 22nd and 23rd Streets). This area is being prepared for over 5 million square feet of development rising up to 300 feet in height.

The project is currently funded and led by California Barrel Company, with support from Associate Capital and Meg Whitman, the CEO of HP Enterprise. The overall development would introduce up to 2,700 new housing units, 220 hotel rooms, 600,000 square feet of office space and more than 100,000 square feet of retail (including a new grocery store).

To ensure capacity for these new businesses, new parking will be added for nearly 2,600 cars and 1,700 bikes. There are also plans to add a dedicated bike land down 23rd Street. Interestingly, the plans call to keep the power plant’s old smokestack and its nearby Power Block structure intact.

Credit: SocketSite

The proposed plan also calls for adding six acres of open space and parks. This includes a central Power Station Park, a waterfront park, and promenade connected to San Francisco’s Blue Greenway. Lastly, the project team is debating the construction of a new dock that could provide water access for recreational, commercial, and municipal watercrafts.

Except for one 30-story building on the western side of the site, which is roughly the same height as the existing boiler stack along the bay, the other 18 proposed buildings range from 65 to 180 feet in height. Current zoning for this area limit buildings to 65 feet in high, so expect some amendments at some point.

The Potrero development site is near many other very large mixed-use projects such as the 28-acre Pier 70, 14-acre India Basin, the proposed Golden State Warriors arena, and the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point.

The original power plant was previously owned by PG&E and stopped operating in 2011. It was considered one of the dirtiest energy producers in the state of California and its predecessors operated on the site going all the way back to the 1870s.

The ultimate hope is that the power plant property will become an extension of Pier 70, where a dozen historic industrial buildings will be preserved. We’ll keep you posted as we find out more.

https://www.potreropowerstation.com/history/

https://calisphere.org/item/1dee5ff9e09b40b4926b263138c37ea9/

https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4016022

https://sfist.com/2017/09/20/potrero_waterfront_area/

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/tag/california-barrel-company

http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/holdings/photoresults.php?R=450&S=arcata&CS=All%20Collections&RS=04&PS=Any%20Photographer&ST=ALL%20words&SW=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxgU3gZmzSE

https://rosamondpress.com/2011/08/31/california-barrel-compnay-bohemian-grove/

I just awoke from my Old Man nap and realized I was a Chevy Man, and not a Ford Man. In my unfinished science fiction novel, Berkley Bill Bolagard takes a job as a Ford Truck salesman after he visits his old friend, Dexter Lewis, in Los Angeles. Bill appears dressed like Wild Bill Hickock in Ford commercials.

“Ride em cowboy!”

The Ford Super MX3 has a trailer with a canvas top, that looks somewhat like a covered wagon. Bill designs a super-fast Ford Thunderbird that drives by the three mile long wall of the Gideon Institute, a private prison system. Getting on the computer, I read this.  I have caught up! The future I saw in 1986, and the ‘Last Hippie Standing’ is – here! I am reborn again on this day!

I finally get it. What George Miller designed. It is a time machine, that his brother, Joaquin Miller used in his attempts to keep the world, and the Timosphere, free. We are like twins. There is a parallel universe that can be used to transport us Futurians.

Above is a photo of Joaquin Miller with his mother who lived seven miles away in Coburg. Next to Joaquin is his daughter that he sired while living with Indians. These Oregon folks are about 200 yards up the hill from where my grandfathers had a orchard and farm. Miller was the Woodminster. I am the new Woodminster, who is being pursued by the Shame Master, and he She-Shamers from hell.

The Mayor and City Council are talking about spending 44 million dollars on a new library, across the street from the old library. Whos so much? What kind of library will this be. I suggest they name it the ‘Washington Irving Library, because there are amazing changes coming this way. The Bohemians are on the march! The battle for the Willamette Valley, is brewing. Miller was a member of the Bohemian Club and has been to the grove.

Springfield Jonny ‘Master and Duke of the Woods’

UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House confirms that President Donald Trump will sign a bill averting a potential partial government shutdown at the end of the week. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says Trump will also take “other executive action — including a national emergency” as he seeks to keep his border wall pledge. The bipartisan congressional legislation expected to pass Thursday includes only a fraction of the billions of dollars Trump is seeking to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sanders says, “The President is once again delivering on his promise to build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country.”

An emergency declaration to shift funding from other federal priorities to the border is expected to face swift legal challenge.

Van Rensburg and Winkle Prophecy

Ed Ray did Oregon a great disservice by depicting Thomas Hart Benton as a important man with glaring, even psychotic, character flaws. It is now becoming apparent Benton was Jefferson’s hammer, that he used to crash throught the barrier to the West – and on to India! Benton was chosen because of family connections. Both men were fully aware of the growing British Empire, who thru Colonial Rule, had amassed great wealth, and built impressive Manors. In 1856, the army of Queen Victoria ‘The Queen of Trade’ made India the jewel in her crown-colonies. Was she responding to the fear Benton and John Astor would establish a Pacific Trade with the Far East, that would bypass, and surpass the blockade of British Men of War? Benton worked for a Transcontinental railroad.

President Trump has successfully built his Eastern Wall when he declared a Trade War with China. This wall has to come down! I believe women are the future of International Trade. One need only look at Eugene’s very successful Saturday Market for a blueprint of larger things to come. I see a new focus for Phil Knight and the University of Oregon, who will graduate women who already have hands-on experience in Foreign Trade.

I see a Peace Treaty between the women mayors of Springfield and Eugene, a Hands Across Water. I see Congresswoman dressed in white breaking ground with Michelle Obama. I see World Peace via Enlightened Trade! There is the European Union, and, and, here come the Pacific Union. Build it, and they will come!

John Presco

President: Royal Rosamond Press

Ever since Columbus, explorers had hoped to find a “passage to India,” one which would open the way to the storied riches of the Orient. When Lewis and Clark reached the western shore of the continent in 1804, they revived this vision in America. Jefferson seems to have grasped the importance of the Pacific Northwest to trade with Asia but was primarily interested in the establishment of a static, uncomplex agricultural society. But Thomas Hart Benton, otherwise a fervent follower of Jefferson, passionately advocated westward expansion and lobbied throughout his Congressional life for the construction of a western Pacific railway. For Benton, the Atlantic coast was too derivative of and dependent on England; access to Asia, on the other hand, offered America true national greatness. The difficulty in transporting Asiatic goods eastward across the entire American continent hampered serious consideration of this process until the advent of the trans-continental railroad in the 1840s.

Benton thought that the nation with the most direct route to Asia would increase in wealth and power; and as Lewis and Clark had discovered a westward route, all that was needed was a trailbreaker to lead the way through the wilderness. Men of all classes of the community could participate in this effort and begin to emancipate America from its dependence on Europe. Asia, grateful for gifts of liberal government, scientific advances, and true religion, would unite with America against exploitative Europe. Benton’s Jacksonian expansionism was tempered by Jefferson’s conservative warnings that a republican government could not survive too great an expansion of its boundaries. Benton at one point proposed that the Rocky Mountains should separate the United States from the Pacific Republic, though the two would stand together against the Old World.

Ocean-borne commerce formed the economic basis for the theme of the “passage to India.” Connecting the wharves of the world with the storehouses of interior merchants would develop and populate the West. This “highway to the Pacific” would make possible the distribution of goods to previously unreached areas and eventually make possible production in those areas. Asa Whitney, a New York merchant who had made a fortune in the Orient, realized that the transcontinental railroad was the key to both Asiatic trade and settlement of the trans-Mississippi region. He submitted an audacious proposal for a sixty-mile wide tract of land stretching from Lake Michigan to the Pacific which was subsequently denied. Though he came later to grant Whitney’s point, Benton did not initially fathom the importance of the railroad because he drew only on his experience of networked waterway transportation in his native Mississippi Valley.

Both Whitney and Benton were in love with the West and agreed about the importance of Asiatic trade to the future development and grandeur of the United States. In 1845, Whitney debated Steven Douglas about the forces governing westward expansion. Douglas argued that individual farmers were the source of westward development, while Whitney maintained that from a commercial point of view, the isolated western farmers did not really exist, insofar as they were not incorporated into the larger economic exchange of goods and services. Whitney concluded that if the western railroad was built, it would create markets and the farmers would follow.

Jefferson and John Astor wanted to found a Pacific Empire. Thomas Hart Benton and Jessie Benton were close to the Astor family.

John

WASHINGTON — In the 19th Century, the giants of the U.S. Senate had a special affinity for constituent service: They drew salaries from powerful businessmen while serving on Capitol Hill.

Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri was paid by John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Co.; Henry Clay of Kentucky worked for James De Wolfe, a slave trader, and the great orator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts was on the payroll of the Bank of the United States. Webster even complained to the bank managers that “my retainer has not been renewed, or refreshed as usual.”

By today’s definition of morality, those payments would be considered bribery, and the senators who accepted them would be disgraced, if not indicted and convicted. Political ethics have changed remarkably since the days of Benton, Clay and Webster.

https://fee.org/articles/john-jacob-astor-and-the-fur-trade-testing-the-role-of-government/

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-02/news/mn-7967_1_senate-ethics

https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/astoria

Astoria, or Fort Astoria, was the United States’ first settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. Located in present-day Oregon, along the Columbia River, the area was first visited in 1805 by President Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery when they wintered in nearby Fort Clatsop. The idea to found a permanent settlement near the mouth of the Columbia was devised by the wealthy New Yorker John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Born on July 17, 1763 in Waldorf, Germany, Astor emigrated to the United States in 1783, and within a decade was America’s leading fur trader. He hoped to expand his lucrative business into the Pacific Northwest, an area dominated by British Canadian fur traders at the time.  Astor pursued the idea with President Jefferson in a series of letters and a meeting in 1808.1  Plans were laid for the Astoria expedition after Jefferson guaranteed Astor “every reasonable patronage and facility in the power of the executive.”2 The Astorians set out for Oregon in 1809 in two groups: one travelling by land, following Lewis and Clark’s route, and one by sea. In 1811, the seafaring party landed along the Columbia and began to build their settlement; in doing so they had realized Jefferson’s dream of transcontinental American settlement.

Over the next few years the Astorians went about, in Jefferson’s words, “planting the germ of an American population on the shores of the pacific.”3 However, with American-British relations strained, and war on the horizon, Astor began to fear for the survival of his settlement. He wrote to Jefferson, now retired and living at Monticello, in hopes of persuading him to write or meet with leaders in Washington in support of military protection. Jefferson again complimented the aims of Astor, going so far as to compare him with “Columbus and Raleigh;”4 however, he declined to take any action in support of Astoria, stating “from medaling however with these subjects it is my duty as well as my inclination to abstain.”5 After President Madison declared war on Britain, Astor again wrote Jefferson on the matter but received a similar answer.6 However, by this point the Astorians, unbeknownst to those back east, had under the threat of Royal Navy attack sold out to the British-Canadian-owned North West Fur Company at a price which Astor considered to be far below market value.7 Although Astor would make several moves to reclaim the area for his company, this effectively ended his exploits in the Pacific Northwest.8 In the following years, Astor focused the attention of the American Fur Company on the Great Lakes region, and met with great success. By the time of his death in March of 1848, he was America’s wealthiest man.

– Kevin Hivick, Monticello Research Report, February 2011

Further Sources

• Irving, Washington.  Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains.  Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836.  The first edition of Irving’s account of Astoria’s founding, available online.
• Ronda, James P.  Astoria & Empire.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
• Ross, Alexander.  Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River.  London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1849.  A first-person account of the Astorians’ sea voyage and subsequent settlement at Astoria.  Available online from Google Books.
• Search for more sources in the Thomas Jefferson Portal on Astoria and John Jacob Astor

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How honest is this? My kin, John Fremont, co-founded the Abolitionist Republican Party and was its first Presidential Candidate. Trump carries those red southern states who honor their Confederate ancestors. Capturing the moral high ground began before the Civil War. Ministers on both sides made a claim. The issue of abortion was invented to take the moral high ground from the Civil Rights movement that was taking power away from white people who are becoming the minority, and thus want to appear to be victims. That only they care about Right to Life, is the invention.

John

“If you look at public opinion data, white evangelicals’ connection to [Trump] isn’t because he’s carrying water for their pet causes,” said Robert Jones, founding CEO of PRRI. “It’s really about their broader fear about the changing demographics of the country.”

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5502785

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

The night before last week’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump was hosting religious leaders and lawmakers for dinner at the White House when he spotted Democratic Senator Chris Coons — and pounced.

Trump confronted the Delaware lawmaker — who attended the event as the Prayer Breakfast’s official Democratic co-chair — over the issue of abortion, creating a tense scene in the White House’s Blue Room, according to three sources familiar with the exchange.

Trump leaned in close to Coons, who calls himself “a practicing Christian and a devout Presbyterian,” and laced into the Democratic senator over controversial moves to change statewide policies on abortion that have roiled New York and Virginia politics in recent weeks. “He was in his face about it,” said one person familiar with the exchange. The person described Trump as extremely “worked up.”

“He saw a Democrat in the room, a Democrat who’s known to be a person of faith, and he was like, ‘Why aren’t you speaking out about this?’” the source added.

Another source who was in the room confirmed the account, describing the moment as both “awkward” and attention-grabbing. Rarely has Trump been so vocal about abortion when the masses aren’t watching, this person said. (A Coons spokesman declined to comment.)

The private episode underscored Trump’s recent public focus on abortion, which has delighted his evangelical Christian supporters. During his State of the Union address last Tuesday, Trump used vivid imagery to claim that New York’s new abortion law would “allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.” And he accused Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who’s backed similar legislation in his state, of wanting to allow medical providers to “execute” babies after birth.

Abortion is a somewhat unlikely new cause for a president who years ago called himself “very pro-choice” and did not make the issue a central theme of his 2016 campaign. But people close to Trump say that he has developed an increasingly sincere passion for the cause.

That passion also conveniently dovetails with what they call a concerted recent effort to energize white evangelicals who might otherwise be turned off by the concessions Trump appears poised to make to Democrats who have refused to meet his demand for $5.7 billion in wall funding. In need of a boost with his base, Trump is turning increasingly to social and religious issues.

Four officials inside and close to the White House said Trump has sought to connect in new ways with his evangelical supporters during the prolonged immigration battle and has been previewing issues that could play a key role in his 2020 re-election bid.

That wider effort includes Trump’s unexpected endorsement last month of a campaign to add Bible literacy classes to public school curriculums. He has also been in regular touch with evangelical leaders, including Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., who sometimes speaks to the president several times a month.

And on Thursday, the White House’s political affairs office will host a conference call with surrogates and the president himself to “discuss the importance of Life at every stage,” according to an email invitation obtained by POLITICO.

“We’re very pleased that the president is using the bully pulpit to make it clear that he values every child, born and unborn. It’s a powerful statement duly noted by evangelicals and it’s consistent with the president’s beliefs and with his policies,” said Faith & Freedom Coalition head Ralph Reed, who spoke with Trump shortly before his State of the Union address.

“It’s also politically savvy,” suggested Reed.

The outreach comes at a moment of political vulnerability for Trump. For the 81 percent of white evangelicals who backed him in 2016, immigration remains an issue of utmost importance. Sixty seven percent of white evangelicals support Trump’s border wall, and 72 percent backed his travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, according to data compiled by the Public Religion Research Institute.

“If you look at public opinion data, white evangelicals’ connection to [Trump] isn’t because he’s carrying water for their pet causes,” said Robert Jones, founding CEO of PRRI. “It’s really about their broader fear about the changing demographics of the country.”

But those numbers are why two outside advisers to his 2020 campaign said they’re concerned about the potential impact of a perceived “loss” or “cave” to Democrats should Trump, as is expected, sign onto a preliminary deal struck by congressional negotiators this week.

That agreement, announced on Monday, includes $1.375 billion for 55 miles of border fencing — not even half of the $5.7 billion Trump demanded in wall funding. Democrats managed to add a provision encouraging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain fewer undocumented immigrants.

The good news for the White House is that a third of pro-Trump white evangelicals say there’s virtually nothing he could do to lose their favor. But some evangelical leaders worry about Christians who have become disenchanted by the chaos of Trump’s administration or feel that he has otherwise betrayed their values.

“I spoke with a pastor here in town who’s Pentecostal and an immigrant. He was very supportive of Donald Trump and even encouraged his congregation to vote for him. Then, in 2017, with the travel ban and the ramped-up ICE enforcement, he told me, ‘Wait, I thought this president was for a Christian agenda,’” said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, a Baptist minister in Durham, N.C.

“Many people have had that kind of realization — that it wasn’t just rhetoric,” he claimed.

Trump has sought to compensate for such complaints by playing up other evangelical priorities in recent days — and by soliciting advice from prominent conservative Christians.

In addition to abortion, religious leaders point to Trump’s support for a bipartisan criminal justice reform measure, which he signed into law in December, that had been a longtime cause of Christian activists who preach forgiveness.