WE HELP BRADY RHOADES MEDITATE
Since Brady Rhoades, the managing editor of the Daily Pilot, lives in faraway Fullerton, he can probably be excused for simply mouthing the usual sop of the local dimwits when he writes in his Daily Pilot blog: "And I thought of the City Council banning soccer at Paularino Park, a not-so-subtle move — errant soccer balls are dangerous, some said — to drive out Latino illegals and Latino citizens, never mind the difference." LINK
Actually, Mr. Rhoades, Paularino Park is too small to be a soccer field and such activity in this inappropriate location puts both the players and those using the park for its intended purposes in danger.
If you had even a passing familiarity with the park, you'd realize that it is one of the smallest parks in Costa Mesa and that its central feature is a sand filled tot lot with swings and a slide. The toddlers who play in that tot lot were in danger from running soccer players and from kicked soccer balls. There is no sports field in Paularino Park and there is no place in this tiny park where such games can be played without impacting the rights and safety of others.
Your comments are just more of the same bigotry that we've been hearing in Costa Mesa from the usual lefties and Return to Reason characters.
Try this one on for size. Do you think that the city is trying to "drive out Latino illegals and Latino citizens, never mind the difference" by not allowing soccer in the Dog Park?
"Why, no," you'd reply, "but that's different. You see, CM PRESS, the Dog Park has a purpose and rules to further that purpose."
You'd be right about a purpose and rules. But, the underlying principles of a purpose and rules also applies to all other parks and sports fields. Paularino Park is no different. It was designed to be a lightly used passive park. Heavy sports activities defeat that purpose and infringe on the rights of those who want to use it for its passive purposes. Again, Paularino Park does not have a sports field.
And, Mr. Rhoades, you also wrote: "At any rate, I climbed the stairs to the top tier overlooking Reading and about 30 miles of trees and meditated on that one for a while."
You will be pleased to know, Grasshopper, that you don't have to go to Reading, PA to meditate. You can now meditate in Paularino Park to your heart's content without being run over by soccer players. Had you tried that in the past, you might have ended up with a permanent cleat brand on your face.
You may also be interested to learn that more people are using Paularino Park than ever before
now that they don't have to sit in the middle of soccer games.
And, if you want to play soccer, Mr. Rhoades, Costa Mesa has some very nice and safe fields just for that purpose.
Say, Mr. Rhoades, why don't you go and sit in the middle of one of those soccer fields and meditate. Then, when the city removes you for your inappropriate activity at that location you can write another blog entry about how the City Council is trying to chase meditators out of the city.
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HEY WESTSIDERS DO YOU LIKE BEING ROLLED ALL THE TIME?
Alan Blank (he, of a family of Return to Reasoners) has a column in the Return to Reason Daily Pilot today about the non-profit magnets that are helping keep the Westside as slum central. Of course, he doesn't put it that way. LINK
When you read Blank's column, notice that most of the non-profits are on the Westside and that they serve a "similar demographic", which Blank correctly defines as "Latino." In fact, if you check the records, you'll find some of these non-profits seem to only serve Latinos.
Non-Latinos need not apply, apparently. Shades of separate drinking fountains. Of course, the non-profits will deny they discriminate against non-Latinos. Why, they only serve Latinos because, ah, that's who applies. Yes, that's it. And, in 1960's Alabama, some places only served whites, because, ah, that's who applied.
Folks, don't take our word about this. The HUD reports on who the non-profits serve are public records. Just go to the fifth floor of City Hall and ask to see them. What you'll see is that very few non-Latinos are served by many of these non-profits. If you check a little further, you'll realize that they also serve illegal aliens. And, if you place pins on a map showing where the non-profits are located, you'll understand how concentrated these non-profits are on the Westside.
Here's another thing, few of these non-profits have any evidence that they're doing any good for our city. Our gangs increase and our crime increases. Then, the non-profit bosses come and ask for money each year and say they're doing a wonderful job. Really? Where are the results? Don't tell us that you made this or that illegal alien comfortable or happy. Tell us what you're doing for the citizens of Costa Mesa. Tell us how you're helping make our city nicer and safer.
Do you Westside Improvers wonder why you can't ever improve your part of Costa Mesa?
The answer is that some libs are trying to make the Westside into a permanent illegal alien ghetto, and some non-profits are acting as magnets to help this happen.
In the Pilot column, Snow Bunny Katrina Foley says she's going to try to get money for SOY, which isn't supposed to get any this year. Well, Foley, why don't you move SOY out of Rea School and put it in your own Mesa del Mar neighborhood? Won't do it will you? Don't want it in your back yard but it's okay for the Westside. Right?
Blank also mentions that yet another non-profit on the Westside, the Wilson Street Learning Center, which is run by Gina Gartner, is going to get $5,000 of YOUR hard earned dollars. Gina Gartner is the wife of Bill Gartner. You may recall that Bill Gartner was quoted in the Daily Pilot a few years ago bemoaning what he perceived as an anti-Latino current in the city. He even hinted at Latino riots. Both Gartners supported Return to Reason candidate Mike Scheafer in the last City Council election.
According to the Senior Center Web site, Bill Gartner is a board member of the Center. Mike Scheafer is also a board member. This is the same Senior Center that refuses to answer some simple questions posed by City Councilperson Wendy Leece.
Oh, did we mention that Mike Scheafer's wife, Sandi Scheafer, is apparently involved with one of the non-profits that has a branch in Rea School on the Westside?
We learned that, after Ms. Scheafer sent an email on November 6, '07, from "Boys and Girls Club--Home Office [mail to: BGClubHA@PacBell.net)" to the City Council, in which she said, about one of our opinion pieces in the Daily Pilot concerning a skate park location: "I was appalled after reading M. H. Millard's opinion in the Daily Pilot today. I know he likes to stir things up and maybe the Daily Pilot does too, but I hope Millard is wrong and your decision tonight is not a political one."
Appalled? Good grief. And, "likes to stir things up?" Actually, Ms. Scheafer, I want to help make our city a nicer and safer place and I also want to know that my tax money isn't being used to reward illegal aliens for coming here and isn't being used in ways that discriminate.
By the way, when I was on the 3R Committee a couple of years ago, I looked at the Boys and Girls Club of the Westside's HUD CDBG request for money and I noted that the stats about who is served seemed almost identical to those submitted by SOY.
How could that be, I wondered? Then, I visited the Boys and Girls Club and SOY and discovered that not only do both non-profits share the same Rea school building, but there is just an open doorway that separates the two non-profits and I saw clients walking through the doorway while I was there.
So, if client A signs in at SOY at 3:00 and then walks through the door at 3:01 and signs in again at the Boys and Girls Club, is he getting two different services at the same time?
Since the non-profits don't supply the actual names of clients to the 3R Committee or the City Council, but only supply numbers, it's difficult to tell if the same clients are being counted twice.
Perhaps there is a logical explanation, but since these non-profits are using tax payer money, shouldn't the City Council make sure we're funding non-profits that serve all Costa Mesans regardless of race or ethnicity and that the services provided actually help our city and that there's no duplication of efforts?
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