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“Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra --Nothing scientific can be racist and nothing racist can be scientific. (c)2000-2017 CM PRESS.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
CM PRESS # 1007
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
CM PRESS # 1006
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MANSOOR, LEECE AND FOLEY GO FOR A SIT DOWN WITH THE GUV
[The following is from a City of Costa Mesa press release that we received today.]
On Monday, January 4, 2010, Mayor Allan Mansoor, Mayor Pro Tem Wendy Leece, and Council Member Katrina Foley will be in Sacramento to meet directly with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to request that he stop the proposed sale of the Orange County Fair and Event Center.
The City’s delegation will use this time to express the point that the proposed sale of the Fairgrounds is a bad financial deal for the State and for all taxpayers. With the property’s restricted use, any sale would generate minimal revenue while eliminating such a treasured asset for Orange County. Mayor Allan Mansoor stated, “A face-to-face meeting between our delegation of locally elected officials and the Governor is the best way to ensure that our message is communicated clearly.”
The meeting will start at 11:30 a.m. and conclude at approximately Noon on January 4, 2010. With three members of the City Council scheduled to attend and to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Brown Act, this meeting will be conducted as a Special Closed Session Meeting of the Costa Mesa City Council. An Agenda will be properly posted both in Costa Mesa and in Sacramento in compliance with State law.
For further information on the proposed sale of the Fairgrounds or to review a copy of the Agenda for this Special Closed Session Meeting, please go to www.ci.costa-mesa.ca.us or call the City Clerk’s Office at 714-754-5225.
THE CM PRESS COMMENTS:
The three will meet for a half-hour with Governor Schwarzenegger. What can they possibly say in that half-hour that he hasn't already heard? Nothing. Will he stop the sale? It's doubtful. Why? Because there are other forces at work to switch the Orange County fair and all other activities currently held on the fairgrounds to the Great Pork.
What might the Governor say to our Councilmembers? He'll probably tell them about the state's budget hole that is getting deeper even as they talk. Then, he might tell them that the bidding process will continue and he'll keep their wishes in mind after the bids are opened. If the bids are too low or not clean enough, he may then have the property removed from the market. He'll probably also tell them that other state properties may go on the market in 2010, so Costa Mesa shouldn't feel picked on.
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U.S.LED TROOPS ACCUSED OF EXECUTING 10 AFGHAN CIVILIANS, INCLUDING 8 CHILDREN, AFTER DRAGGING THEM FROM THEIR BEDS
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8 AMERICANS DIE IN BLAST IN AFGHANISTAN
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CMPD DUI CHECKPOINT RESULTS
The Costa Mesa Police Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Tuesday, December 29, 2009, at Santa Ana Avenue and 18th Street.
During the hours of operation, 296 vehicles drove through the checkpoint, 142 were stopped, and 11 drivers were screened for driving under the influence. There was 1 DUI arrest. In addition, 3 drivers were cited for driving on a suspended license. A total of 11 citations were issued for miscellaneous vehicle code violations and 4 vehicles were impounded.
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GET READY FOR CONSPIRACY TALK ABOUT THE PANTS BOMBER
In the world of spooks, er, spies, plots and subplots are often convoluted. You know that from Hollywood films, which in some cases do mirror reality.
You've probably seen the news reports that the American intelligence community had information on the pants bomber before he got on the plane this past week.
And, you've probably also seen news reports about how he got on the plane without a passport because of the aid of a well dressed man.
And, lastly, you've probably seen the news reports from Yemeni government officials saying there are hundreds of potential pants bombers in that nation just waiting to board planes headed to the U.S. to blow up their crotches. Link
What's it all mean?
Well, one way of looking at it is to start with the fact that Yemen wants more U.S. involvement in that nation (read U.S. dollars and other help), and that it needs to give an excuse to the U.S. to give that aid and send in thousands of U.S. troops.
Hmmm. How can you get the U.S., that is stretched thin around the planet as well as right in the U.S., to undertake a massive military effort in Yemen. Hmmm. How can you get the American people to support yet another military front?
Hey, how about tricking some poor sap to put a bomb in his underwear, help him get on a plane heading to the U.S. and then have him blow the plane up. Voila! Remember 911! Remember the Maine! Remember the Alamo! Wave your little American flags! We have to protect America. Send your American kids to die in Yemen--it's the American way!
Unfortunately for the plotters, if there is anything to the above scenario, the dumb pants bomber couldn't get his crotch to blow up and he's still alive and he's apparently talking.
And, now, people are wondering if that well dressed man who helped him catch his flight might have been a Yemeni or U.S. or some other nation's intelligence agent working to blow up a plane to get American public support for a new war in Yemen.
Our guess is that some people are now looking for the well dressed man. Some may want him to talk and some may want to silence him. Our further guess is that he's probably a little nervous right now.
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DEADLY BLASTS IN IRAQ--AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY A TRAIN WRECK
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We've long long said that the U.S. is just making things worse in Iraq and that our troops are dying for nothing.
Now that we're pulling troops out, the very conditions that the U.S. said we were fixing are continuing but with not as much notice in the U.S. press. Don't be fooled by this.
The reason you won't read much about Iraq in the neo-con controlled U.S. media these days is because it's pretty much doing the bidding of the government and has an out-of-sight-out-of-mind policy toward the American people.
Read about Iraq in foreign news sources and you get a much better idea of what's happening.
Eventually, the U.S. puppets in Iraq will be overthrown and Iraq will become an Islamic republic. That's the trajectory that was set by the first George Bush and which was continued by his idiot son and which is continuing under Obama. No, these three didn't intentionally set that trajectory, they just blindly shot the arrow into the air without thinking intelligently about where it would land. They failed to fully understand the various forces at work on its path.
As we wrote even before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the only person who was keeping Iraq relatively stable and secular was Saddam Hussein. So, what did we do? We demonized him and then killed him.
You remember the phony PR ramp up to the invasion: Babies were supposedly being thrown out of cribs by Hussein's forces (Didn't happen). There were weapons of mass destruction (There weren't any). Hussein was killing his own people (He was fighting those who the U.S. is now fighting who wanted to get rid of his secular regime and bring in an Islamic government).
In the next few years, even the dumbest among us is going to see what our stupidity has done.
And, the slow motion train wreck of American foreign policy continues on. Today, we are making more stupid mistakes, but this time in Afghanistan and soon it will be in Yemen as the war mongers and war profiteers continue to send our young people to die for nothing.
The world is a big chess game, and the major players in the U.S. think they're playing checkers.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
CM PRESS # 1005
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Citizens of both communities now fund their own schools (instead of receiving money from the state), and these citizens don't want their tax money to be used for free loaders who don't live in those communities.
Speaking of schools, Newport Mesa should crack down harder on students from Santa Ana who are using phony addresses in Costa Mesa. Yes, we know the district did crack down, but it can do better.
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December 29, 1937--THE MODERN STATE OF IRELAND WAS BORN
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THIS IS UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB, THE PANTS BOMBER
Terrorism, like violent crime, is not an equal opportunity employer, but our PC nuttiness makes profiling difficult and our security people have to search 80-year-old Swedish women as though they're as much a possible threat as people who actually look like most terrorists.
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Say, maybe the guy with the bomb in his pants was just trying to be a post-op transsexual.
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SOMALI PIRATES GRAB THREE MORE SHIPS
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The disgusting thing about this is that no world leader has stepped up and set a priority to stop the pirates. It really wouldn't be very difficult to stop these guys. Just drop all the lefty PC talk and attack them on shore. Frankly, because of rampant emasculating PCism, it's probably going to take a private "security" firm to do the job.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
CM PRESS # 1004
Allan Mansoor is termed out and running for the State Assembly, so his seat is open.
Wendy Leece is up for reelection.
Eric Bever, Katrina Foley and Gary Monahan each have two more years on their seats so they don't have to run.
So, at this very early date, what can we expect in November 2010?
Wendy Leece-- should be mayor and can use that high-profile position to her advantage, assuming she chooses to run, and we are assuming that. As an incumbent, Wendy has a very good chance of winning back her seat if she doesn't get her head turned by libs such that she starts thinking that they're now her friends. They're not, and they won't vote for her no matter how much they smile to her face right now because she's on the Council. If she curries favor with the libs, the conservatives and the improvers will abandon her. Every word, every gesture is watched. If she comes across as squishy, she'll lose.
Jim Righeimer-- is just about certain to run, and this should keep other conservatives out of the race on a handshake basis.
Righeimer is a big money raiser from GOP insiders who mostly have their eyes on Sacramento and Washington, but he seems to have a problem with running a local campaign. He should have won the last time he ran in Costa Mesa but didn't. We have our thoughts on why he didn't win, but for now we'll keep them to ourselves (at least publicly) other than to say a candidate in Costa Mesa needs to have a steel hand in a velvet glove, not the other way around.
Others--the usual cast of characters will suddenly show up and put their names in the hat and will tell us how they're going to improve, ah, what's the name of this city? Right. And, they'll gush about how much they love, er, whatever this place is called, and how they just couldn't wait to run to save us from________and improve________and fix_______, and, golly, this is sure a city with a heart, and we need___________and I know how to________ah, because_______. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, after the election they'll disappear again. Thankfully.
We're expecting Return to Reason, that group of libs, whether they call themselves that or something else, to run some libs, and we think they may run one guy who used to work for the city. Improvers can hardly wait to campaign against this guy if he pops up.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
CM PRESS # 1003
We see a similar parade of bums every two years in Costa Mesa with our municipal elections.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
CM PRESS # 1002
Friday, December 25, 2009
CM PRESS 1001
North--Santa Ana, aka Chocolate City--Man robbed of $ 200 at knife point.
North--" "--15-year-old girl hit on head with baseball bat. Her cousin was bitten on the hand and may lose two fingers.
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South--Newport Beach, aka Vanilla City--No one robbed again today.
South--" "--No 15-year-old girls hit on the head with a baseball bat and none of their cousins may lose two fingers.
No racial/ethnic descriptions of the attackers appeared in the OCR. You know what that means. It means the attackers weren't white. If they were white, it'd be front page news and their race would be given. Then, you'd probably be reading about some so-called anti-hate experts demanding hate crime charges be filed as soon as the whites are found. Ho hum.
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WHITE SALVATION ARMY MAJOR SHOT AND KILLED BY TWO BLACKS IN FRONT OF HIS THREE YOUNG CHILDREN ON CHRISTMAS EVE
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Violent crime is not an equal opportunity employer. Know it and be safe.
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DEAN & DELUCA HIGH END GROCERS PULLS OUT OF POSSIBLE SPOT AT FASHION ISLAND
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The CM PRESS has absolutely no inside info, but our instincts tell us Dean & DeLuca may open at another location not too many miles away. Again, that's just a pure hunch.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
CM PRESS # 1000
6:49 PM--Friday, December 24, 2009--Yet another car in a serious collision and flipped over on its roof on Baker Street east of Fairview near St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. This is very close to the last car that was on its roof that we reported a couple of weeks ago.
The CM PRESS keeps trying to get some traffic enforcement for this stretch of Baker Street, but the CMPD just seems to ignore our requests. The problem with Baker Street is that people are using it as an alternative to the 405 to get to and from Huntington Beach and they're travelling at freeway speeds.
When the traffic signal turns red at Baker and Coolidge, there are usually several cars that run the light at high speed. This isn't a once in a while thing, but is constant but is especially noticed during rush hours.
Where are the CMPD traffic cops? They're usually a half mile west of this location doing their traffic stops near Baker and Fairview and usually during daylight hours.
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POLL: 2010 TO BE YEAR OF "ANGRY WHITE MALE"?
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Have you noticed that when PC columnists write about angry whites, that they try to fragment whites by leaving out white women? It's never "angry whites." It's always "angry white males."
As we've written before, it seems to us that angry white women are either leading the charge or are at least right in the front ranks of angry white people who are getting fed up with being forced to the rear of the bus.
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WHITE TEACHERS IN PEORIA SAY THEY WERE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN--SUING DISTRICT
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"At the time of the winter solstice, let reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is just myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
--Sign put up by Atheists in Ill. Capitol
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AFGHANISTAN--OBAMA'S VIETNAM--AND EVEN WORSE?
Over a ten year period, Russia sent more than 600,000 troops into Afghanistan...and lost.
Now, Obama is leading the U.S. into the same situation that we can't win.
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The reason we can't win is because we aren't fighting a nation. We're not even really fighting the Taliban or Al-Qaeda--even though that's what PR types in the U.S. government want you to believe.
We're fighting an idea--a religion--that has spread all over the planet. If we defeat the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, so what? The idea is still there and will return in its more fundamentalist forms.
What Obama is trying to do--and let's say it right out loud--is kill enough of the fundamentalist Muslims so our paid, cafeteria style Westernized Muslim puppets can run Afghanistan as an Americanized nation with us pulling the strings and propping up the government.
It won't work. The fundamentalist Islamic beliefs run very deep and started right with the life and teachings of Muhammad who grew his religion with the sword. Convert or die, was the method. It hasn't changed.
All Obama is accomplishing is making the U.S. more hated and a bigger enemy and thus a bigger target in the eyes of the world's Muslims.
As we try to buy off thousands of "moderate"Muslims so they'll be our friends, and as these bought friends then fear for their lives as they are uncovered by fundamentalist Muslims, they'll be resettled in the U.S. where the Muslim population will continue to grow; and from the midst of the growing Muslim population will emerge many fundamentalist Muslims who will continue the fight to convert everyone to Islam.
The fight next time won't be in the boonies of Afghanistan. It'll be on the streets of America.
America isn't used to dealing with people who really believe there is a God and who believe that they are doing His will.
We're used to dealing with people in the U.S. who have compartmentalized religion as something you do to impress your neighbors for an hour a week and who change their religious principles to be trendy.
In addition, there is a short view of history and there is a long view. Unfortunately, Americans and our leaders are used to taking the short view. We think if we can put and keep our paid puppets in power in Afghanistan, we'll have won.
The problem is that with modern communications and fast international travel along with the PC multi-culti nature of this age, the short view is the wrong view.
We don't even know what we're fighting for or what a real win means.
So, what should we do? We should respect the rights of all peoples to their own self-determination and stop trying to turn all nations into little Americas. In the specific case at bar, just let the people of Afghanistan work out their own problems. Just butt out.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
CM PRESS # 999
According to the Daily Pilot, Newport will probably tear it down and put in much needed parking. Good work, Newport. We'd like to see Costa Mesa do some similar things in our city.
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THEY WALK AMONG US...NUTCAKE STALKER WITH LOONY OBSESSION GETS ARRESTED
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Has anyone checked to see if she's a frequent commenter and blogger and if a local newspaper actually takes her neurotic ravings seriously and lets them be published?
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AN EXPERIMENT TO WATCH...VENEZUELA OPENS GOVERNMENT DISCOUNT STORES
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When you read this article you realize that what is going on in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez is more than just socialism vs. capitalism between nations; it's competition between them right on the streets of Venezuela.
In addition, it seems that Chavez is trying to build a buy-local economy that is a rejection of the New World order and internationalism.
Meanwhile, the U.S. seems hell bent on making the world a global village instead of a planet of individual and unique nations.
In the global village model, we see the division of labor that used to be done within the U.S. now spreading out worldwide as the U.S. deindustrializes.
Where are the factories making things for the U.S.? They're in China, Japan and India.
The U.S. isn't making things anymore. We've become a nation of paper pushers and middlemen.
The CM PRESS believes this is a big mistake.
Wealth is created when you make or grow something. It is not made by having middlemen and paper pushers add their commissions to that original thing that was made or grown.
So, it's all getting a bit topsy turvy now.
The "capitalist" and "free market" U.S. is becoming the Communist International and socialist Venezuela is becoming nationally capitalistic and free market with the people of Venezuela, as represented by their government (that, unlike the U.S. government seems to actually care for the people of the nation), competing with the international big money types.
And, yes, there is a term to describe what is going on in Venezuela: National Socialism. But, maybe this time it will evolve without the uniforms and war machine.
Anyway, it's something to watch.
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PC LOONS IN BRITAIN SAME AS HERE--HIGH NON-WHITE VIOLENT CRIME RATE IN BRITAIN BUT WHITE MODELS USED IN NEWS STORIES ABOUT VIOLENT CRIME TO HIDE THE TRUTH
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
CM PRESS # 998
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Funny that the race/ethnicity of the attackers isn't mentioned, don't you think? Local commenters indicate the attackers are black. Will hate crime charges be filed? Don't be silly, those charges are reserved for any white kid who frowns at a non-white.
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TOM TANCREDO CALLS FOR HATE CRIME CHARGES AGAINST BLACKS WHO ATTACKED WHITES IN DENVER
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WHEN WILL THE COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL GET SERIOUS ABOUT FIXING BROKEN COSTA MESA?
In CM PRESS # 993 we reported on Costa Mesa High School now being ranked as a failing school and we pointed out the reason is because the City Council is keeping the City full of slums that house illegal aliens who are flooding the school with non-English speakers.
In CM PRESS # 997 we reported that, according to the FBI, two cities in Orange County--Fullerton and Costa Mesa--are bucking a downward crime trend and are showing more crime. We said the reason for the increase in crime in Costa Mesa is because the City Council is keeping the City full of slums that are the breeding grounds and safe-havens for the mostly non-white criminals who are terrorizing our streets.
Folks, the City Council of Stanton, yes Stanton, understands the link between the slums in that City and the crime rate in that city and the Stanton City Council is doing what the CM PRESS has suggested for years for Costa Mesa--THIN OUT THE SLUMS!
Stanton is taking money that would go to fluff projects and using it to buy up slum buildings and tearing them down. And, it's not using redevelopment or eminent domain. Stanton is doing EXACTLY what the CM PRESS has suggested for Costa Mesa.
When will we get some City Council members in Costa Mesa who will get their priorities straight? Even the good Council members in Costa Mesa seem to be too often caught up in spending money on fluff instead of on making the base level improvements that the CM PRESS has been calling for.
It's as though we have a crumbling foundation on a house, and the City Council decides to spend money on buying new furniture for the house instead of fixing the foundation.
Fix the foundation, City Council, and then worry about the furniture.
All it would take to get this started is for three Councilmembers to say that they want this as their highest priority. That's it. Just three of the five could help fix Costa Mesa and this would improve our failing schools and decrease our violent crime rate.
And, in the long run, this would save the City money.
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LAST MARINE BATTALION SET TO LEAVE IRAQ
3rd Battalion, 24th Marines leaves in January. Link
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GLOBAL WARMING FIX A LONG HOSE?
Suggestion is to run a hose up to the stratosphere--6 miles to 30 miles above the Earth's surface--and pump out sulfur particles to block some of the heat from the sun. Link
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Monday, December 21, 2009
CM PRESS # 997
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WHITES BEING ATTACKED BY BLACKS IN MAINE--PC TYPES WON'T CALL THE ATTACKS HATE CRIMES
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U.S. Government settled black Somalis in almost completely white Maine, and now the black Somalis are ganging up and attacking white citizens.
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FED UP WITH TRYING TO KEEP RAINY CLIMATE PLANTS ALIVE IN OUR SEMI-DESERT? NEED SOME IDEAS ON HOW TO CHANGE THINGS?The City of Costa Mesa has received a donation of water wise plants from Village Nurseries of Huntington Beach.
By the end of January, the plants should be in planters around City Hall and will be divided into four themes: "California Cottage Design," "Shade Garden Design," "Red Garden Design," and "Mediterranean Design."
Here's the LINK to Village Nurseries.
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Costa Mesa and Fullerton both showed an increase in violent crime, according to the FBI's numbers, going against the grain of the nation's downward trend.
LINK to article in the OCR
Hey, Costa Mesa City Council, why do you suppose that violent crime is up in Costa Mesa?
The answer, as we've been telling you, is because you have failed to remove or thin out the slums in Costa Mesa.
As long as you keep the slums, Costa Mesa will continue to have high violent crime rates and good, decent citizens will move away and the vacuum they leave will, in some cases, be filled by people who will help increase the violent crime rate.
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THREE OF OUR BOOKS--AVAILABLE AT FINER BRICK AND MORTAR BOOK STORES AND AT AMAZON.COM# # #
THIS IS DAN EVANS. HE'S THE LATEST EDITOR AT THE DAILY PILOT.
Unfortunately, Mr. Evans seems to be following in the footsteps of many previous editors, which is to say the paper is continuing to publish hate from a couple of local low I.Q. crackpot cowards.
We had hopes that Mr. Evans would try to make the Daily Pilot a true community newspaper in touch with Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, but alas....
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WHITE CONN. FIREFIGHTERS NOW WANT DAMAGES, BACK PAY AND ATTORNEY FEES
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These are the same white firefighters that the CM PRESS reported on previously who won a lawsuit against New Haven after that PC city didn't promote them because they're white but did promote less qualified non-whites.
These white firefighters are going to make sure that New Haven doesn't get off lightly after its anti-white discrimination. Hooray!
It's nice to see whites finally refusing to just accept anti-white bigotry and discrimination, is it not?
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TEA PARTY: GO HOME!
Here's an article that says the same thing the CM PRESS has been saying for years: If you want political power, you must build from the bottom up.
Big national campaigns are needed to gain publicity, but if you aren't building right in your own towns and cities, then you'll be left with little but a fragile gingerbread structure that will do little but send out letters trying to raise money for obscure leaders who what to be president, but who can't get enough votes to be dog catchers.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
CM PRESS #995
Newport Beach police have released photographs of two suspects in a violent Newport Coast home invasion robbery.
Darrin Mucker, 37, on the left, and Ronnie Labert Morrissette, 34, both of Los Angeles, are wanted on $1 million warrants in connection with the Dec. 8 robbery.
Both men should be considered armed and dangerous, according to the NBPD.
Anyone with information should contact the department’s hotline at 1-(800)-550-NBPD. Messages may be left anonymously.
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THE TEA PARTY TO TAKE ON GOP AND DEMS?
For some time now, there's been a national political buzz from disgruntled conservatives/rightists about starting a new third party to be what the Republican Party was during the ascendancy and reign of Ronald Reagan.
The first is that our political system--unlike those in Europe--makes it difficult for such Third Parties to ever gain any real power. Our system is set up to favor just two parties.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
CM PRESS # 994
Link with photos of six blacks who were arrested.
Remember, violent crime is not an equal opportunity employer.
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Western Race Hatred Laws: Keep the Caucasians Down
Pravda says many Whites act like castrated servants. Link
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MEXICAN MARINES KILL DRUG CARTEL BOSS
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IS VAN TRAN RACIST?
SHOULD PEOPLE VOTE FOR ONE OF THEIR OWN?
HOW DO YOU DEFINE ONE OF YOUR OWN?
[Those were the real questions, Congressman Rohrabacher, but we know that you know that.]
Last night, Costa Mesa's Congressman Dana Rohrabacher held a telephonic town hall meeting. The CM PRESS heard part of the meeting.
The most important question that we heard asked of Congressman Rohrabacher was posed by a woman who wanted to know Rohrabacher's take on the fact that Costa Mesa's present State Assemblyman Van Tran, who is now running against Loretta Sanchez for her seat in the U.S. Congress, seems to want to keep his Assembly seat in the hands of Vietnamese and thus hasn't endorsed Mayor Mansoor who is running for Van Tran's seat.
The nub of the question (but not directly stated last night) is contained in the three questions in the headline of this column.
Congressman Rohrabacher gave the usual white person soft ball answer by saying (in very polite and friendly but carefully measured tones) that many people in various minority communities often vote for one of their own whether they are Vietnamese, Hispanic or Black, but that hopefully people will look for the best candidate.
Why do we say that Congressman Rohrabacher "gave the usual white person soft ball answer"?
It's because his answer is what is expected of white people. Only white people are supposed to overlook race and be aracial drones voting for positions rather than for people who look like them, and only white people are expected to define "one of their own" in anything but racial or ethnic terms.
All other races and ethnicities are excused (and often praised) when they vote for people who look like them no matter what their positions.
Frankly, if a Vietnamese candidate wins against Mansoor, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach will get short shrift in the Assembly.
Remember, Van Tran voted to sell the Costa Mesa Fairgrounds and then, when he realized there was local opposition to the sale, he changed positions.
The main interests of Vietnamese candidates is in Westminster's Little Saigon--not Costa Mesa and Newport Beach.
And, remember, this is going to be especially important in the coming years as Westminister has embarked on a plan to make Little Saigon, not just the Vietnamese equivalent of a local China Town or Little Italy, but the national capital of Vietnamese life in the U.S.
Our guess is that's why Don Lamm was hired away from Costa Mesa to be the City Manager of Westminister.
Mr. Lamm is a redevelopment guy who can be expected to provide the expertise to make a much larger Little Saigon a reality and a national (maybe international) destination location.
And, because of this goal, a State Assemblyman who is Vietnamese and who represents Westminister (and Little Saigon) along with Costa Mesa and Newport Beach will naturally be inclined to follow his heart and tilt toward Westminister and Little Saigon instead of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. This could mean less funding for projects in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach as the tax money pie is cut up.
FACTS TO HELP KEEP THINGS CLEAR: The 68th State Assembly District includes parts of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Newport Beach, Stanton and Westminister. Van Tran is the current State Assemblyman of this district. He is termed out next year and Mayor Mansoor is running for his seat.
The 47th Congressional District covers Garden Grove and Santa Ana and parts of Fullerton and Anaheim. Loretta Sanchez is the Congresswoman and is being challenged by Van Tran.
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Those are our opinions. What do you think, are we close or are we off the reservation?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
CM PRESS # 993
Dr. Dennis Harkins was named the new president of OCC today. Dr. Harkins is presently the Director of Government Relations at Georgia Perimeter College in metropolitan Atlanta and will take over the helm at OCC on January 1, 2010.
It would be nice if Dr. Harkins and his family decided to live in Costa Mesa.
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U.S. TRAVEL INDUSTRY GEARING UP FOR TRIPS TO CUBER (Ah, sorry, my Bahstan accent returned just for a moment.)
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THE STATEMENT IN BLUE ITALIC BELOW APPEARS ON THE COSTA MESA HIGH SCHOOL'S REPORT CARD
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Can you figure out why the school is considered a failing school? Actually, that's a misnomer. The school facilities are the same as any other school facilities in the district and the teachers are probably just as good as any other teachers in the district. Same for the administrators and staff.
So, what variable(s) do we have that might account for this school having so many low student scores and thus being considered a failing school from which (by law) parents can now remove their kids and send them to a non-failing school in the district? Hmmmmm?
When you look for variable(s) in this report card try to overlook the gushy left wing crap language and the unsupported and unsupportable conclusions that are nonsense.
Also, note the two statements that we've put in bold blue. So which is it? Is diversity an asset (and if so, how so?) or does diversity present challenges?
Costa Mesa High School serves 1889 ethnically- and academically-diverse students. The ethnic composition of the school includes 30.4% Anglo, 7.8% Asian, 54.9% Hispanic, 2.2% Filipino, 1.9% Pacific Islander, and 2.1% African-American. Approximately 38% of the
students use English as their second language. CMHS/MS's diversity is an asset, and the school and the Orange County Human Relations Commission have collaborated in training students and staff to celebrate the school's unity, tolerance, and respect that are shared among all in the school. At the core of the school’s mission is the future of all its students, and despite the challenges of the diversity presented, the opportunities offered to all students are designed to ensure that every effort is made to provide every child with
the choice to enter the college or career of their choice.
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LEFTIES HAVE NO CORNER ON STUPIDITY
You can, of course, see how such things get confused and mixed up in the modern world.
To be clear, the confusion flows and grows from the wrongheaded acceptance of the notion that genes don't matter and that we should disregard this essential and primary source of who and what we are and substitute secondary identities to define us.
These secondary identities include geographic locations, nations, governments, political divisions, cultures, languages, religions and ideas.
Here's a dumb article from the conservative Big Government web site in which the writer gets into a snit over the Akaka Bill that is being debated now in the U.S. Congress.
Akaka, in simplest terms, would recognize Native Hawaiians (like the guy in the photo on the right above) as being similar to an Indian tribe and allow them a larger degree of self-governance.
The Big Government article is so full of stupid statements, that it would take too long to discuss them all, but here are just three moronic gems from the author of the article who, like so many "conservatives," is against the bill and who tries to distinguish Native Hawaiians from American Indians to make his case. Our comments are in red:
"The fact of the matter is that Hawaii was a kingdom with a monarch before becoming a state, unlike American Indian Tribes." Uh, so what? That doesn't matter a whit.
"Furthermore, the Tribes recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs are not racially exclusive and the Native Hawaiian government would be race based." The native Hawaiian government should be race based, because Native Hawaiians are race based. They are Native Hawaiians because of their genes.
The genetic code of a distinct people is what determines their race.
"There are Hawaiians who object on the grounds that they would be racially excluded from the new governing entity, even though they have lived their whole lives in Hawaii." This is really stupid. The writer is mixing up residence with genes. It's just dumb logic.
Look at it this way: If a Chihuahua is born and/or lives in a kennel of Pit Bulls, is the Chihuahua a Pit Bull? Of course not. The Native Hawaiians are demanding the right to self-identity, self-determination and self-governance. They're saying, in essence, that they are a distinct genetic people and they want to live as a distinct genetic people and not become extinct.
THE CM PRESS BOTTOM LINE: All distinct peoples have, by dint of their birth and by natural law, the right to self-identity, self-determination and self-governance and they should not be forced by governments of humans (who are often of different blood) to blend themselves away into some undifferentiated lumpen mass of humanity. Distinct peoples have a God given right to exist, as they alone determine is in their best interests.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT LOUSY MILITARY EQUIPMENT
Rucksacks that cut off circulation
Rifles that jam
Camouflage that doesn't hide
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