JOHN WAYNE WILL KEEP GROWING BECAUSE NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING REALISTIC TO STOP IT
Joe Bell, who lives in Newport Beach's Sudetenland under the steel sky at the end of JWA's runways, has a column in the DP today about JWA.
It's worth reading, if for no other reason than to read what the CM PRESS has been saying for years: Many of those who are supposedly fighting the expansion of JWA aren't doing much effective fighting and JWA is going to keep growing unless some people with brains and testosterone enter the fight with a realistic alternative to JWA.
In fact, with all due respect and apologies to some who are a bit more effective, some of those who citizens think are doing something to stop JWA from eating up Newport Beach and Costa Mesa actually look more like a gaggle of chickens running around with their heads cut off or women at a sewing bee.
The CM PRESS has listened to their pitches at various meetings and we could hardly stay awake. The pitches we heard had no focus, no direction, no passion and no real ideas. It was coffee klatch stuff. Busy work. Mumblings about nothing.
And, why wouldn't they look and sound this way? Some have the support of Costa Mesa City Councilperson Katrina Foley and they also support her.
According to Bell, Ayres Boyd, who is with the Airport Working Group, said, “There’s no strategy in place to prevent that growth. We need somebody to drive it. To act like they mean it.”
Amen!
I'll go further. You also need more than a bunch of knitting bee ladies mumbling nonsense about a train to the desert where people will t
hen catch their flights. They might as well be talking about personal jet packs.
hen catch their flights. They might as well be talking about personal jet packs.To stop JWA you need an alternate airport and it needs to be along the coast.
The CM PRESS has previously laid out the numbers and facts for you. The best location is on a tiny portion of Camp Pendleton.
We've also laid out the strategy on how to proceed.
If you want to know more, just use the search feature on this blog and put in JWA, LAX, Camp Pendleton, and a few similar terms and you should get all the facts and figures.
And, if you think some of the above sounds harsh, just wait until we start having some airplane accidents as a result of having an ever growing airport in our backyard. Then, you may realize that the above isn't harsh enough.
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QUICK READ COLUMN ON DARWIN
Here's a link to a column about Charles Darwin in the LA Times. One thing the writer should have mentioned in the column, but didn't, was that Darwin's wife, Emma, was also his cousin.
You'd think in a column about the marriage of a guy whose fame was based on his theory of evolution and how living things change, largely through natural selection and mating choices, that this bit of information should have been included.
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DAILY PILOT MOVES EVEN MORE LEFT
Have you noticed how the DP seems to be moving ever more leftward? The paper links to lefty blogs, or blogs that never update, and promotes various lefty causes and attitudes.
Maybe the suits over there think that's a good business model for Newport Beach and Costa Mesa? LOL. Hey, Sam Zell, who's minding the store down here?
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