Friday, February 26, 2010

CM PRESS # 57


BUDGET IS BIG ISSUE AT NEXT TUESDAY'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING
Here's a link to the budget report.

The CM PRESS believes that there are many things that can be done to erase the $9 million budget hole and that many of them are just common sense things with many small savings (that will quickly add up). Frugality is a habit that often leads to greater efficiencies in unexpected ways.

It's time to shrink government, and we think it can be done without laying off any employees or cutting services that are really needed by citizens.

We may offer details on some of our ideas (and those of others as well) over the next few days.
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ARE NEUTRINOS DARK MATTER?
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BEAM INJECTION IN THE LHC TO BEGIN SOON
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FEMALE STUDENT ADMITS HANGING NOOSE AT UCSD [Yet another phony hate crime story?]
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Notice in this story that one important fact is missing. The race of the female student is not given. This is often an indication that the perp is not white. If she is white, this fact would probably have been indicated. At any rate, we'll try to keep on top of this story and if we see anything new, we'll pass it along.
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BELIEF IN GOD RELIEVES DEPRESSION ACCORDING TO THIS ARTICLE
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THE CM PRESS'S OPINION: It's long been known anecdotally that a belief in something larger and more important than us as individuals, and which has the final say, and which is concerned about us, works well with human psychology.

This is so, because our large brains give us the ability to look around us and ask the big questions of existence such as, but not limited to: Why are we here? Is there a purpose to our lives? What happens when we die?

Without a belief in something larger, the answers to these questions often leave some people feeling alienated, empty and full of a quiet existential hopelessness that there is no meaning or purpose to their lives.

It might be said, as it often has been over the centuries in one way or another: If there is no God, we better invent one.
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A NON-HISPANIC WHITE, NEIGHBORHOOD BASED, NON-PROFIT?

Suppose you set up a non-profit in Costa Mesa and you primarily or exclusively served non-Hispanic White people.

Further suppose that you then helped these non-Hispanic White people organize so they would become active to help their non-Hispanic White neighborhoods and non-Hispanic White neighbors.

And, suppose you then asked the City of Costa Mesa to give you tax payer money to help with your non-Hispanic White neighborhood organizing and empowering efforts.

What do you think would be said about such an effort in the lefty press? Do you think some might call it racist? Do you think that some might say the non-profit is using thinly veiled language to push political positions, causes and politicians that they favor?
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CNN POLL: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SAY GOVERNMENT A THREAT TO THEIR RIGHTS
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THE DUAL PERSONALITY COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL SENDS MIXED MESSAGES ABOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS. FIRST IT HAS THEM ARRESTED, THEN IT GIVES MONEY TO NON-PROFITS THAT HELP THEM FEEL WELCOME IN COSTA MESA

After the CMPD arrested, and ICE deported, some illegal aliens back in September, Crissy Brooks, who runs a non-profit called MIKA Community Development Corp., that's located on the Westside, wrote a column in The Daily Voice about how she cried about this. You can read her full column HERE.

But if you want to stay on this page, some of her column is captured below.

Ms. Brooks is also on the City Council appointed 3R Committee* that determines how much of your money non-profits in the City receive. Last year, Ms. Brooks' own non-profit, MIKA, received $20,000 of your money and is back again this year asking for more.

According to the latest report filed with HUD by MIKA, the non-profit served 129 people in the period 7/1/08 through 6/30/09 and all 129 (that's 100%) were, according to the report, Hispanic. **

However, Costa Mesa is approximately only 32% Hispanic.***
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*Source: City of Costa Mesa roster of committees. Link scroll down to page 19.

**Source: City of Costa Mesa Consolidated Annual Performance & Evaluation Report [CAPER] July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009, Submitted September 2009--page 135

***Source: Area Connect. Link
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As promised, here's part of Ms. Brooks' column. Again, be sure to read the full column HERE.

WHY REJOICE ABOUT TEARING FAMILIES APART
[From the September 30, 2009 The Daily Voice]

By Crissy Brooks

I heard about the police sting on the day laborers almost instantaneously. One of my neighbor’s boyfriends was in the group that was picked up on 17th Street. {snip}

Then more and more women began calling me saying their husbands had been taken, too. By Monday, I had six out of the 11 families whose husbands were arrested asking me for help. {snip}



I have cried a lot this week. I cried with the women who don’t know how they will provide for their families. I cried with the men as I sat in a hotel room in Tijuana explaining that the church in Costa Mesa is standing with them and their families. But mostly I’ve cried alone in my car wondering how we became a city that tears families apart on purpose and then rejoices about it.

Crissy Brooks is the executive director of Mika Community Development Corp., a faith-based nonprofit whose mission is to identify and equip leaders in low-income neighborhoods.

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And, here's a January 6, 2010 column from the Daily Pilot about a self-described undocumented worker who volunteers with MIKA. LINK
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QUESTIONS POSED BY THE ABOVE:

1. Should the City Council give our money to non-profits that help suspected illegal aliens and their families?

2. Should the City Council give our money to non-profits that appear to help only one race/ethnicity, and not others, or should the Council ask that such non-profits receiving our money look like Costa Mesa?

3. Should those involved with non-profits sit on the 3R committee that gives our money to the non-profits, including the non-profit that the committee member is involved with?

4. Should the City Council be more consistent in its approach and not give with the left hand and take away with the right?


What do you think?
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.

1 comment:

  1. " But mostly I’ve cried alone in my car wondering how we became a city that tears families apart on purpose and then rejoices about it."

    What an absurd question/premise. You are not helping anyone, parents or children, by encouraging or assisting their illegal stay in the United States, you are actively harming them. The parents are solely responsible for placing their families at risk of being "torn apart." By their actions alone, they have created this situation, and it is truly apalling that you claim to be dedicated to "equip leaders to take responsibility for their community" while materially preventing them from doing that very thing. To take responsibility for their community and families, they would immediately return to their home countries and begin the process of coming to the United States legally.

    Instead, you callously impose your compromised beliefs and encourage these people to continue breaking the law and placing their families at great risk, as well as teaching their children that the law is irrelevant and the way to get ahead in life is to be a criminal. Ms. Brooks, do you ever tell anyone who utilizes MIKA's services that they should go home and immigrate legally, or do you assist and encourage their illegal residency here in the United States? Just how do you encourage anyone to take responsibility, when the closing question in your commentary clearly indicates that you have no concept of what taking responsibility entails?

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