Thursday, November 3, 2011

CM PRESS # 669


STEVE FRYER AT THE OC REGISTER PICKS COSTA MESA HIGH SCHOOL VS. LAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL AS A TOP GAME OF THE WEEK (GAME IS FRIDAY NIGHT)

Fryer also picks Costa Mesa to beat tough Laguna Beach.

The CMHS vs. LB game may give a good indication of what will happen at next week's cross town rivalry between CMHS and ESTANCIA for the Battle For The Bell.

Back on October 20, Estancia beat Laguna Beach 35-14.  If CMHS beats Laguna Beach tomorrow night with scores like it has been getting in recent games (61-0, 49-14), put your money down on CMHS to beat ESTANCIA.

It's too bad we're so close to the end of the regular season because Coach Grant at CMHS has steadily improved his team both in offense and defense and in running and passing. Grant has a lot of tools to spring on any opponent.

At the beginning of the season, the CM PRESS wrote that CMHS had a defense problem.  Grant apparently also saw what we saw and he quickly solved that problem and has turned the defense into a brick wall.

Meanwhile, his offense has been like a hot knife through butter for most of the season.  Give them the ball and you can expect a touchdown very quickly.

We hear a buzz that Grant has actually been holding his team back from getting even higher scores because he doesn't want to ridicule some of the other teams (after all, these are just high school kids).

We'll post a link on the CM PRESS tomorrow night from the OC REGISTER where you'll be able to get the scores and a brief report of the game action as it happens.

One X factor added to tomorrow night's game is rain.  May be a slick field.  This will work against a running game.
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DETROIT IN SERIOUS FINANCIAL CONDITION

One sign: City has gone from 95% White to less than 11% White. HERE
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ANOTHER ONE: "Wendy gets it, Thank God! said...
Can Wendy Share...? You're that poster people say is Martin Millard."

The above is appearing on Wendy Leece's blog HERE. 

"Can Wendy Share" is not me. However, I'm starting to have a Guy Fawkes moment.

All you people out there who are commenting in clear and concise ways who want to see an improved Costa Mesa, please start writing as though you don't know what you're talking about (see Tom Egan's writing style for a clue about this) so people will stop thinking you're me.

If there are any lefties out there who can think in a straight line, they have to start being concerned that it isn't just me who wants an improved Costa Mesa, and that others are writing comments that are very similar to ones I've written about the way forward.

Yes, the Yellow Brick Road is open for the election next year.
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TOM EGAN MAKES YET ANOTHER MISTAKE AND ANSWERS NORTHSIDE PHIL AS THOUGH NORTHSIDE PHIL IS ME


Sorry, Tom, I'm not Northside Phil.  Also, your tadpoles died.

When I comment, I want people to know it's me commenting. Thus, I comment under some variation of my own name:  Martin H. Millard, M. H. Millard, H. Millard or as CM PRESS.  Never as Northside Phil or any other name.  And, I never comment in the Daily Pilot or any other local newspapers except in full columns that I've written and signed with my real name.

Anyway, dear reader, if you can stand Egan's bloated and rambling mumblings, you can read the exchange below between Northside Phil (who is not me) and Tom Egan (who is also not me) that follows Egan's column in the Daily Pilot HERE. 

You have to scroll down and read from the bottom up for this to make sense. Well, to be sure, when you read what Egan writes, it still doesn't make much sense no matter where you start reading.

Tom Egan2 at 3:35 PM November 2, 2011

(Continued from previous)

Then I’d say to Martin, “I know you can get pig-headed about your ideas, because you really, really think they’re good, because they’ll lead to good things in the long run, and because you’re willing to sacrifice the short term for long term results.”

Of course Martin would use some other fallacious rhetorical devices to try to divert me, but I wouldn’t fall for them, because I’m so tired of his wasting my time (we’ve had this kind of exchange many times before).

I want to have a civilized discussion around the ol’ cracker barrel, so to speak, and he wants to be obstinate, believing that stonewalling is the way to win a negotiation.

Finally, I’d say to Martin, “Look, you’ve read the same books on the art of negotiation I have, and you know that stonewalling will either win big or lose big, depending on the will of the other party.”

“Martin,” I’d say, “Eventually the truth will get out to enough people, and they’ll finally realize that the nuances are very important … as in ‘The devil is in the details.’ Then, if you’re still stonewalling, you’re going to lose big, because the public will drop the big hammer on your stones.”

But relax, Northside Phil, I’m not going to say these things to you. I don’t know who you are, so how can I have a conversation with you?
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Tom Egan2 at 3:33 PM November 2, 2011

(Continued from previous)

Of course, Martin (knowing him as I do) would be trying to interrupt my line of argument as I go along, because he’s never wanted to hear anything that would challenge his beliefs and values.

But I would persist. I’d gently remind him that I support meaningful reform of public pensions. But just to tweak him a little bit, I’d also remind him that unions all over America have been agreeing to modify their pensions, public sector unions included.

And I’d have to remind Martin that our own CM employees have been modifying their pension agreements with their employer, City Hall, up until March 2011. And that they had been open to negotiation until the councilmen took their hostile actions re layoffs.
(Continued)

Tom Egan2 at 3:32 PM November 2, 2011

To Northside Phil,

If you were my erstwhile friend Martin, I’d say, “There you go again, Martin; changing the subject and using the ad hominem attack. You always do that when you can’t think of a good response.”

“Yes, the Governor is pitching pension reform,” I’d say. “Good for him. And yes, the Pilot wants to be extreme, and end ‘… public pensions for future public employees, with exceptions made for police, firefighters and prison guards, the people who risk their lives protecting ours.’”

“If you support those exceptions, great,” I’d say. (I know that, as a practicing Libertarian, he would, because he always has to bend some of his principles to allow a few “obviously necessary” governmental activities.) “That means you’re sensitive to at least some of the nuances in the issues, so maybe you’ll be sensitive to some others?” I’ll ask.

(Continued)
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Northside Phil at 5:19 PM November 1, 2011


Isn't it funny how the ones who are so quick to defend our unsustainable and outrageous pension system are the ones who are feeding at its trough. The Mrs. Egan to Tom Egan is a long-time City employee who receives a guaranteed pension. No wonder Mr. Egan is so quick to attack the Pilot for at least conceptually supporting the Governor's plan.

Mr. Egan, at least the Governor is pitching. What are you doing other than simply sucking at the teat of these ridiculous pensions? Those who oppose meaningful pension reform are always those that stand to lose something if the joke of a system is not changed. The rest of us need to fight for the reform our State needs to desperately.
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WE IMAGINE...

EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO ALLAN ROEDER?

He moved to Greece, changed his name to George Papandreou and became the Prime Minister.

We have the photographic proof HERE.
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BLUE EYES?  YOU'RE A MUTANT

Actually, no matter what color eyes you have you have many mutations.  The DNA code is constantly shuffled so that life of some type will survive in ever changing conditions and with ever changing threats.

The above linked article has one error in that it says that eye color is a neutral mutation and doesn't offer a survival advantage.

Actually, the blue eye mutation does give a slight survival advantage in northern areas of the planet that allows those with the mutation to see a little better in blue light (as in the mornings) and foggy, snowy conditions. That's why you'll often see wolves from northern climates with blue eyes.

As you'll read in the above article, the blue eye mutation entered the human genome from a single person who had the mutation about six to 10,000 years ago.  Before this individual, all humans had brown eyes.

The blue eye gene is recessive to brown eyes.  "Recessive" simply means that both parents must have the gene (whether expressed or not)  for a child to be born with the characteristic.

Genes are us.
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ISRAEL SAYS IT WILL STOP MORE HUMANITARIAN AID SHIPS NOW ON WAY TO GAZA
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RT ARTICLE ON NEO-CONS TRYING TO GET US INTO A WAR WITH IRAN

The Neo-Cons want you to send your kids to die for no reason in another war.
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UPDATE ON WHITE WOMAN MURDERED BY ILLEGAL ALIEN AT A WAL-MART IN N.Y.

Remember the old America where you could go to store and not be afraid that you would be killed by an illegal alien or some other "diverse" person?

This woman was just minding her own business and went to a Wal-Mart to buy a few things.

Are you getting fed up yet with the idiots who keep mindlessly mouthing cliches such as "diversity is our strength"?
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FOR MORE CLUES AS TO WHY IT'S COSTA MESA AND NOT COSTA MENSA BE SURE TO READ THE COMMENTS FROM THE USUAL GAGGLE OF ANONYMOUS BIGOTS AND HATERS AFTER THIS DAILY PILOT ARTICLE ON CM AS A CHARTER CITY

Thanks to easy to use computers, these slack-jaws don't have to write their ignorant hate on rest room walls down at the bus station anymore.
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