CM PRESS # 483

HARBOR BLVD OF HOMES

At its May 3, meeting, the City Council will consider a request to change the zoning on the former Lincoln-Mercury dealership from commercial to residential and allow 33 detached homes to be built on the site. LINK
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ORWELLIAN NEWS: PUB SINGER ARRESTED FOR RACISM IN BRITAIN AFTER CHINESE PASSERS-BY HEAR HIM PERFORM KUNG FU FIGHTING AND ARE OFFENDED
Link

The singer says the once hit song is a standard part of his set.

The claim of "racism" has become an all purpose cudgel against free thinking and free speech.
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HOMELESS PEOPLE NOW SPREADING TO THE EASTSIDE

So say some Eastsiders that we've spoken to. 

It's not difficult to understand why. 

All living organisms gravitate to where they feel comfortable.  In the case of homeless people, that usually means where they can get food and services.  And, some of the churches on the Eastside are giving them food and services.

It really is very easy to understand just by looking at nature.

Feed a lone pigeon and soon you'll have a whole flock.  Stop feeding the flock, and they'll move away.

It works the same way with all other living things. 

Have a swamp filled with alligators? 

You can keep hiring more and more alligator cops to try to control them, but you'll always have problems so long as the swamp is there. 

Alligators are comfortable in swamps.

However, if you drain the swamp the alligators will move away all on their own.  Why?  Here is is again, and you can quote us on this: ALL LIVING THINGS GRAVITATE TO WHERE THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE.
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NEWPORT USING CDBG FUNDS FOR IMPROVEMENTS
Link to Daily Pilot story on how Newport plans to spend CDBG funds.

The CM PRESS believes that Costa Mesa should use all the CDBG funds it receives this year to make infra structure repairs to the Westside instead of giving any of it to charities.

The Newport Beach City Council understands why the money should go to such tangible repairs.  Why doesn't the Costa Mesa City Council get it?

Year after year, Costa Mesa City Councils have been giving this money (our money) to charities that are concentrated on the Westside and which are often acting as magnets to keep the area downscale.

The money would be better spent by using it to spruce up W. 19th Street or even to use as a down payment on buying up a slum building to tear it down and turn it into a much needed pocket park.

Charities are not going to be magnets for young, professional,upwardly mobile families that we need to settle on the Westside, but proper infrastructure repairs will make the area more attractive to them.
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UPDATE 2:  Still no word from West about when he wants to start circulating a petition to put a new job center/homeless center in his Eastside neighborhood.  C'mon Geoffy, was it something we said?  Turn that frown upside down and let's get working on that petition, by golly!
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UPDATE:  If the City Council even gives a second thought to the nutty idea of opening another job/homeless center, it might want to look at putting it in Pinkley Park or Harper Park on the Eastside.  These will be close to Geoff West's home and he can then volunteer his time at the center.

In fact, we're such kind souls here at the CM PRESS that we'll  help West circulate  a petition among his Eastside neighbors to ask the City Council to do this. 

Why, we might even ask that it be called the Geoff West Job and Homeless Center so all his neighbors can remember who brought it into their neighborhood.

And, if West says that there aren't enough day workers or homeless people on the Eastside for this to work, don't worry; if we build it, they'll come.

We'll simply transfer the population of day workers and homeless people from the Westside and from around Lions Park to Pinkley Park or Harper Park.

West, let us know when you're ready to start working on that petition.
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EASTSIDE BLOGGER WANTS A NEW JOB CENTER/HOMELESS CENTER--ON THE WESTSIDE

Link to Daily Pilot opinion column.

This lefty Geoff West who calls himself The Pot Bellied Pig Stirrer doesn't want it near his home on the Eastside.

He doesn't want those day workers or homeless people roaming around near his home in his  neighborhood.

He wants them penned up on the Westside--in the Costa Mesa version of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Yes sir, throw anything you don't want over on the Westside.  Those people over there will put up with anything in their area just like people in skid rows everywhere.

After all, the Westside has acted as the trash dump and pig sty for the rest of the city and for Newport Beach for years.

What say you, Westsiders?  Do you want a new job center/homeless center in your part of town?

Such a suggestion from this character is an insult to all the people who have been trying to clean up the Westside.

Don't be silent, Westsiders.  Speak out.   SCREAM IT OUT:  THE WESTSIDE IS NOT A PIG STY!

Tell this lefty nimby that if the City makes the mistake of starting a new job center/homeless center it should go on the Eastside as close to this guy's house as possible.

Forget about Werewolves, they're just fiction.

Beware of Werepigs--strange humans who can take on the form of potbellied pigs but who have a hard time disguising their porcine qualities when they're in human form. Well, of course, that's just fiction also.
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DUI CHECKPOINT RESULTS

2300 block of Placentia Avenue – April 27, 2011

656 Vehicles through the checkpoint

520 Vehicles screened

3 Drivers given field sobriety tests

2 DUI suspects arrested

1 Warrant arrest

16 Driver’s license investigations
18 Citations issued
8 Vehicles towed

Sunflower Avenue/Anton Boulevard – April 28, 2011

637 Vehicles through the checkpoint

590 Vehicles screened

2 Drivers given field sobriety tests

1 DUI suspects arrested

1 Warrant arrest

15 Driver’s license investigations

18 Citations issued

12 Vehicles towed

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