MENSA MARTYAs you may be aware, a local tiny brain squish--a really pitiful person who seems to suffer from an inferiority complex, among other things--often calls me Mensa Marty and then writes that he doesn't think I'm very smart.
I agree.
In fact, I'll be the first one in any room to tell you I'm not very smart.
I'm just a guy hoping to contribute my two cents worth to help make Costa Mesa a nicer and safer place where we can raise our families.
MUGGED LIBERAL?
The old saying is that a conservative is a liberal who was mugged.
I may not have started out as a liberal, as the term is normally used, but my views have certainly been shaped by the crime and other problems we see in Costa Mesa--a city that should not be having many of the types of crime and other problems that we now see on an almost daily basis.
So, dumb as I am, I still know that we live in a cause and effect universe and I know that effects (crime and other problems) have causes. Things do not happen for no reason.
Much of what I've done with the CM PRESS over the past years has been to try to point out the causes of our effects.
The thought process I use is simple and is shown below. Do your own research, then fill in the blanks yourself.
If you do this, be completely honest and don't make conclusory statements that can't be backed up with facts. And, by "facts" I mean hard statistics and real facts, not squishy cliches that you might have heard from Katrina Foley or her wine and cheese pals.
To get the hard statistics and real facts, you have to have an open mind and you have to study our problems by first correctly identifying the characteristics of the problems in a detached manner as though you're studying a basic engineering problem. This means you have to quantify the data.
Search the CM PRESS, and you'll find that we've quantified data for you. Do you see patterns?
At any rate, here's the simple thought process as mentioned above:
EFFECT: High Crime Rate
CAUSES:
SOLUTION:
EFFECT: Failing Schools
CAUSES:
SOLUTION:
EFFECT: Gangs
CAUSES:
SOLUTION:
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Update: Monday, August 4, 2008, 6:25PM
STILL ANOTHER LATINO GANG INCIDENT
Here's the LINK to the almost-daily Daily Pilot story about yet another Latino gang incident. This one took place on West 19th Street and Placentia yesterday (Sunday, 8/3/08).
As long as the City Council keeps the slums, we'll have more and more gang problems. Slums don't improve with age.
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Thanks for reading the CM PRESS.
