Monday, April 18, 2011

CM PRESS # 472

FEET TO THE FIRE

Monday, 4/18/11, 8:15 pm--We just came from the Feet to the Fire event.  The event is still going on. Yawn.  There were about 200 people in the audience.

The subject was supposed to be: Should Costa Mesa be run like a business?  While we were there, this was never answered.

By far, the person who came across as the dumbest was Wendy Leece. 

When Wendy was asked why she thinks Costa Mesa has the best police officers, she tried to answer by saying something about how their pay is in the middle (?).  Colin McCarthy then jumped in and held up a sheet showing they're among the best paid [in OC?].  Wendy then said that they're the best because Costa Mesa is diverse (?), and, ah, the police like working here and, er, we have motels on Harbor Blvd. and...ah, our crime rate is down 32%.  It was painful to hear and watch.

Jim Righeimer then gave the correct answer when he said that a city is not safe because of its police department but because of the people who live in the city and who are attracted to the city. 

"Irvine" he said, "is not the safest city in the country because of the police department there, but because of the people there." And he added that eighty-five percent of the people who live in Irvine have college degrees.

We're sure the newspapers will have a full account of the event tomorrow and we'll link to their articles.
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BLACK TEEN MURDERS TWO WHITE BRIT TOURISTS IN MIAMI
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As usual, the race of the murderer and the race of the victims is downplayed.

Violent crime is not an equal opportunity employer.  If these two Brits had been aware of this, they might still be alive today.
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ATLAS SLUGGED

According to most critics, Ayn Rand's novel has done a belly flop in its attempt to jump from paper to film.

People have been trying to make Atlas Shrugged into a movie for years.  Back when I was acting in New York, I read for a part in an early attempt to make it into a film.  

I think Rand was there for the auditions in an office in the Empire State Building.

The problem with trying to make a book such as Atlas Shrugged into a movie is that you either make the film page-by-page true to the book and bore general audiences to death while satisfying the cult like followers of the book, or you slash and burn your way through the book and turn it into a script that will make a good movie.

Apparently, if the reviews I've read are correct, the producers of this movie chose the former path.
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TWO GOOD LETTERS IN THE DAILY PILOT ABOUT JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT
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Apparently to assuage the complaints from Costa Mesa's Eastsiders, flight paths have been moved east. 

Now, there are complaints from Newporters.

As we've written many times before, there is no solution to John Wayne's problems unless a real international airport is built to service the area.

The spot we've suggested is on a tiny portion of Camp Pendleton.

When we get elected to Congress we'll push that plan.  Ah, don't hold your breath.  We're not going to run for Congress or anything else.  If we did that we'd be...gulp...a politician.
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ACTUAL DAILY PILOT HEADLINE: "Brick targets mayor's bar" LINK

Okay, I guess we can pretend that we live in a Disneyesque world where inanimate objects are alive and have personalities and do things and it's not human beings who should bear the praise and blame.

So, why do you suppose Mr. Brick was mad at Mr. Bar?

What did Mr. Bar ever do to Mr. Brick that would cause Mr. Brick to launch himself at Mr. Bar and cause pane to Mr. Window?

Maybe Mr. Brick is as thick as a...and read recent news reports about the mayor dancing in Mr. Kilt and because Mr. Brick wasn't taught to read very well by Mr. School he thought the article said that it was Mr. Bar who was dancing, and not in Mr. Kilt, but in Mr. Kiln.

And, of course, no self-respecting anthropomorphic inanimate object such as Mr. Brick would take that kind of insult to Mr. Kiln lying down. So there's the explanation.

Ah well, let's move on to that bad Mr. School who we mentioned above.

Yup, Mr. School in Costa Mesa just doesn't teach very well.

And, bad Mr. School is causing Mr. Neighborhood to also go bad.  We know that because bad Mr. Gun and bad Mr. Knife are committing crimes.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A GOOD  IMAGINATION TO WONDER...

--Could the terror suspect who threw a brick through a window at Gary Monahan's restaurant have been lying in wait for Gary to come out of the restaurant? 

--Was the nutcase intending to bash Monahan with the brick?

--In addition to the brick, could he have had a knife or gun?

--Could he have thought Gary was at the restaurant and used the ruse of throwing the brick to draw Gary outside where he could attack him? 

--Was there more than one terrorist that night? One to attract Monahan outside after the window was broken  and the other to attack Monahan once he was outside?

--Could someone in the police call center have purposely delayed having cops respond for 40-45 minutes?

--Could the cops have been told to stay away from Monahan's restaurant that night?

--Was there really a serious incident on the other side of town as has been reported, or was that also a ruse to distract the cops?

You can probably imagine many other reasonable possibilities.  The sooner this terrorist is captured, the better.  Then, we may get answers.

Come on City Council, get competent, uncompromised, outside law enforcement to investigate this. 

Have them start with our list of haters and bigots and with the posted threats that preceded this physical attack.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF THE TERRORISTIC THREAT AGAINST OUR MAYOR?

We don't know what's happening, but we'll try to keep our ear to the ground and let readers know as soon as we learn anything.

We think it's indicative of the sad state of the CMPD that the department is apparently not taking this threat very seriously.

Unfortunately, we think there has been a small group of troubled left-wing individuals within the CMPD for many years, who many citizens believe are part of  an informal "clique" within the department, who have contempt for the citizens of this city and who push a lefty agenda.

Frankly, if we were on the Council we'd be thinking about making major changes on how Costa Mesa is policed and we'd be moving at light speed to try to regain the trust of citizens for the many good cops we do have.

 This attack is not a minor thing.  It is far more than a property crime and it has implications for even more serious violence.  The attacker needs to be caught, now.

Isn't it clear from both the suicide and this incident that the haters and bigots have been inciting violence and creating such a toxic atmosphere in Costa Mesa that  psychologically vulnerable individuals can have their  buttons pushed to the point where they lose proper perspective and act out in unacceptable ways?

Read the bigoted and hateful posts following just about any column or article about Costa Mesa and the Council's attempt to get our financial house in order and you'll think you're visiting the psycho ward of a mental hospital.

Among other things, you'll read insane comments calling the four good Councilmen murderers.  And these comments are often followed by others that praise the first commenter and second the false and nutso murderer claim.

And, since many of these comments appear to be coming from within the CMPD, even suggesting that our cops investigate this incident, if that's what is happening, is absurd.  

Just read some of the hateful comments [HERE] from obvious CMPD cops, about who the next Police Chief should be, for a clue about why a trusted outside agency should investigate this crime.
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Those are our opinions.  Think we got something wrong? Let us know.

4 comments:

  1. All comments have been removed from the Daily Pilot article you linked.
    There were dozens, now there are none.

    Magic!!!

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  2. The comments are still there. Must have been a temporary glitch.

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  3. About 6 months ago, I wrote the CMPD about a neighbor who claims mental disability and openly tells others he's mentally ill. He would stand outside screaming he was going to kill white people, the mayor, and President. CMPD disregarded it saying he's probably just singing.

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  4. CMPD needs to be investigating the murder of that city employee. That was no suicide.

    I've also experienced a refusal by the CMPD to properly process mentally ill residents. Anyone presenting with psychotic symptoms should immediately be taken to a mental health facility for observation and treatment.

    Ignoring either of these situations will not solve anything. Instead it only exacerbates the problem.

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