Sunday, September 21, 2008

CM PRESS # 491

Updated: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 1:52 PM--scroll down

TONY DODERO ASSEMBLES THE EDITORIAL CREW AT THE ALMOST DAILY DAILY PILOT-- LINK
(We didn't have an actual photo of the loons so we grabbed this one as a reasonable facsimile)

Tony Dodero and the editorial crew at the almost daily Daily Pilot, who manage to visit Costa Mesa from their far flung homes once in a while, still have difficulty understanding that all parks are not the same and that soccer is not appropriate in all parks.

Subtle, discrete thinking is not their forte. "Duhhh, a park is a park is a park."

Say, ADDP, let's follow your implied logic (our apologies to logicians) and allow pick-up soccer games in all Costa Mesa parks. After all, you have implied that a park is a park is a park.

How about an editorial calling for soccer games in the Dog Park or the Skate Park? What, you mean they're off limits to soccer players? It must be anti-Latino and anti-kid. Whaaaa, whaaa, where are our kids going to play? Whaaaaaaa. Let the kids [the 35 year-0ld-men from Santa Ana] play. Whaaaaaaa.

Or, let's take it even further. If soccer can be played in parks where it is not appropriate, then why can't the folks who want to have picnics and play with their toddlers do this in the middle of The Farm Complex?

We've long known that some of the folks at the ADDP seem to be selected for not being able to think in shades of gray and that everything must be black and white, but maybe the paper should hire a few folks over there who can distinguish between different things.

the ADDP might even try to find someone who can distinguish between a plastic trash container and a metal one. I know. Some of the folks at the ADDP are now scratching their heads. I can almost hear them saying, "Duhhh, what's the difference between a plastic trash container and a metal one, what does he mean? A trash container is a trash container is a trash container."
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WONDERFUL WESTSIDE CULTURE--SOMETHING DOESN'T ADD UP
(The "F" Team gets another, er, F)

One City Council candidate this year, Chris McEvoy, says that he wants to preserve the wonderful Westside culture and not have the area be improved as the Improvers would like.

In fact, here's how McEvoy puts it in his own wonderful words on his election blog: "Our population on the west side is wonderful and adds to the culture/uniqueness of the city."

As you read McEvoy's wonderful words, you just know that he has to be a soul mate of wonderful Flopsy Foley and wonderful Dancing William Sneen.

Sure enough, on his blog, McEvoy tells voters that Foley and Sneen along with Chris Bunyan also deserve their votes this year [in addition to McEvoy, of course].

Now, McEvoy makes a big deal on his election blog about being a math teacher. From his recommendations of himself, Foley, Sneen and Bunyan, we figure he must be involved in the new math.

Let's see if we can figure this out. There are three seats being voted on in this election. That means you get to vote for, ah, 3. Or to use a little higher math: 1, 2, 3. Hmmm. We must be missing something.

McEvoy, Foley, Sneen, Bunyan. 1,2,3,4. Hold on, we're going to count that again. Yup, it still adds up to 4. Well, anyway, math teacher McEvoy wants you to cast your 3 votes for 4 candidates.

When you try to vote for 4 instead of 3, don't be surprised if your voting machine suddenly starts giving off smoke, then sounds a klaxon alarm and repeats in a monotone 1950's mechanical robot voice: "Will not compute, will not compute."

And, speaking of will not compute...
Here are just two recent examples of McEvoy's wonderful culture. We didn't have to go far to find these, just a couple days of any local newspaper will give you many examples.LINK1 LINK2

Seems like a nice kid
Now to tell the truth, folks, McEvoy seems like a pretty nice kid. He's soft spoken and appears to be polite. But someone has to wean him away from some of these illogical lefty views he has, so he can actually help improve our city instead of trying to keep it in the dumps. Seriously.

You'd think a guy who apparently likes numbers [well, except for that little counting problem] would be a little more scientific in his views and would look at the statistics and see that they logically lead to conclusions that do not include the word "wonderful." "Wonderful" and many of our statistics are like apples and pears.

Apples and pears are different?
Oh, no, we can almost see the loons at the almost daily Daily Pilot scratching their heads again and saying: "Duhhhhh, we don't get it. Apples and pears are different? Hey, they're both fruit, and a fruit is a fruit is a fruit, just like a park is a park is a park. Duhhhhh. Hey, this isn't Costa Mensa, you know. Duhhh, we don't need to make no fine line distinctions no how."

Turning Costa Mesa into a new Santa Ana
Well, anyway, when you go to the polls, if you want the "F" team to help turn Costa Mesa into a new Santa Ana, do an even better job with voting than McEvoy suggests and be sure to cast your three votes for Foley, Sneen, McEvoy, Bunyan, Reedy, and Moss. Hmmm. Let's see, 1,2,3,4,5, 6. Yup, that's 3 all right. It's new math.

On the other hand...
Of course, if you want Costa Mesa to be nicer, to have less crime, fewer gangs, better schools, higher home values and a higher quality of life, then you may want to cast your 3 votes for Righeimer, Monahan and Bever (that's the order of their names on your ballot). And, oddly enough, the "A" team does actually add up to 3.

Meanwhile, over at the ADDP...
And, over at the almost daily Daily Pilot they continue scratching their heads. "Duhhhh. Three is different than six? Says who? Hey, they're both numbers, so they're the same thing. A number is a number is a number. Duhhhh."
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Note to: T--He's the one with the goatee.
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ALMOST DAILY DAILY PILOT LAUDS DO-NOTHING FLOPSY FOLEY AND BUMP ON THE LOG DIXON FOR NOTHING--LINK

Man, these lefties are screwy.

The entire City Council turned down the blanket passive park plan. No one who really thought about the idea thought it was a good one. Only one person spoke in favor of it, and we later learned that he wasn't really in favor of it either but was trying to get a park near his home made passive.

So, how did the whole park thing get so screwed up? Well, as we said at the City Council meeting when we spoke against the blanket passive rule, we think the Council may not have communicated what they had in mind to staff and the Parks and Recreation Commission.

And, staff and the Parks and Recreation Commission did a very thorough job on what they thought they were being asked to do. Their original idea of having three designations,had more merit than the two designation plan (but, really, a better idea would be what we finally ended up with--let the neighborhoods decide-which is what the CM PRESS has been saying for several years).

As we wrote before the City Council meeting, along the way, the Parks and Recreation Commission plan of naming parks either 1)active, 2) passive, or 3) passive with active areas, was changed to eliminate # 3. So, what the Council got at their meeting was an either or situation.

It almost looked as though the majority on the Council was being set up.

And, it also looked as though Foley and Dixon and their supporters were expecting the majority to name all the parks passive, and that they were disappointed when the majority didn't take the bait.

So, almost daily Daily Pilot, your praise for Foley and Dixon for killing off the blanket park matter is misplaced. This thing was dead on arrival, and wasn't going to pass even if no one showed up to speak against it.

The neighborhoods will decide. This is as it should be. Thank the majority of Bever, Mansoor and Leece for getting us to the point where we can have safe and usable parks in all our neighborhoods. Give a Bronx Cheer to Foley and Dixon for their attempt to take credit for something they had nothing to do with. Next, these two will claim they are the ones who are driving down our crime by deporting illegal alien criminals.

If more of the suits at the almost daily Daily Pilot actually lived in Costa Mesa, they might avoid such stupid editorials and actually know the finer points of what's going on in Costa Mesa.

Thank goodness they read this blog to stay informed.
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