CM PRESS # 161

CALIFORNIA NOW THE LEAST EDUCATED STATE
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Sliding down to Third World status in so many ways.
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SYNCHRONICITY
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1. Couple getting married discover they were captured in the same photo in the Magic Kingdom years earlier. LINK

2. In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia, carrying the first Israeli into space, blew up over Palestine...Texas. LINK

3. Several years ago I was visiting a small town on the East Coast (population 18,000) from California for the day. While I was there, there was an earthquake in California. The only injury (and it was a a fatal injury) was to a kid visiting California from that same small town.

4. Also, several years ago I casually walked into a bookstore in California to kill a few minutes, and just glanced at a wall of books just inside the door. The cover of one book immediately caught my eye because it looked like something I had seen as a kid--odd dark clouds with a light pinpointing through them down to the ground. Then, I noticed the author of the book had the same uncommon last name as a guy I shared an office with. So, I picked up the book and opened it. The first page that I opened to had a picture of a house, not far from my own home, in the small town in New England where I grew up and where I had seen the clouds/light.

There are probably millions of similar stories. Coincidences? Quantum mechanical universe somehow balancing or linking things in unusual (to us) ways? Our minds simply making connections out of events with no real connections at all?

Hmmm. I wonder. What does my cat make of my garage door suddenly opening when no one is around but then my car comes down the street a few minutes later? Coincidence?

We live in a cause and effect universe. Like my cat, we may not always know the causes when we see the effects, but there are causes.

Here's a link to an article about "entanglement"and "spooky action at a distance."
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PAT BUCHANAN WANTS THE SIEGE OF GAZA LIFTED
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HERE AGAIN IS THE STORY ABOUT REDONDO BEACH'S VICTORY OVER DAY LABORERS
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The CM PRESS finds it odd that the Daily Pilot--which hasn't run a single word about this story--doesn't seem to understand the significance of the above win to Costa Mesa.

Here's a clue. At the next City Council meeting on June 15, (LINK to agenda) there's a closed session item (Item 4) concerning the day laborer law suit against the City of Costa Mesa which is similar to the one day laborers just lost on appeal against the City of Redondo Beach.

--Do you think the above victory for Redondo Beach might be discussed at that closed session?

--Do you think the City of Costa Mesa might ask the court to throw the case out?

--Do you think that the City of Costa Mesa might conform its solicitation ordinance to exactly mirror Redondo Beach's ordinance down to the last comma and period?

--Do you think the City of Costa Mesa might now start legally stopping day laborers from soliciting work from potential employers in cars?

--Do you think the City of Costa Mesa might now start arresting employers in cars who solicit day laborers?

--DO YOU THINK THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY BE NEWS THAT ONE MIGHT EXPECT AN ALMOST DAILY DAILY NEWSPAPER SUCH AS THE DAILY PILOT TO REPORT ON, AND DO YOU WONDER WHY THE PILOT IS SILENT?
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AMERICAN THIRD POSITION (A3P) SEEMS TO BE UPDATING WEBSITE MORE OFTEN
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BAD NEWS ABOUT OBAMA'S WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
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Surge tactics don't seem to be working.
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BLACK 'BUSH HATER' PUNCHES WHITE GOP OFFICIAL AT TEA PARTY
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Hate crime charges to be filed? Don't be silly. The Black guy hit the White guy, not the other way around. Get it?
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MORE ABOUT CALIFORNIA FIRMS FLEEING THE STATE
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California has become a lousy place to build a small business. Too expensive. Too many regulations.

Nevada and other states are wooing California businesses.
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