THE TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED TO GO UP TO 88 DEGREES TOMORROW
And, where will Costa Mesa's Mayor be? Hmmmm?
Will he be bringing ice water to our city workers? Of course not. He'll be selfishly working behind the bar to selfishly keep his restaurant employees working and to put food on the table for his wife and six kids. How selfish can one man be? This just shows that he doesn't care about the workers. Workers of the world unite! Go use your City owned computers to write nasty things about the Mayor in comment sections of the newspapers.
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IF YOU'RE A CITIZEN OF COSTA MESA AND IF YOU'VE BEEN READING THE THUG COMMENTS FROM SOME OF THE OUT OF TOWN HATERS AND BIGOTS, YOU'RE PROBABLY GETTING PRETTY ANGRY.
WELL, NOW YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO JOIN A GROUP THAT MAY HELP YOU SAVE COSTA MESA FROM THE OUT OF TOWN THUGS.
WE'LL EVEN MAKE IT EASY FOR YOU TO JOIN THEM. JUST CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK AND IT'LL TAKE YOU TO THEIR PAGE FOR JOINING.
LINK TO COSTA MESA TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION
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CMPD CRACKING DOWN ON DISTRACTED DRIVERS--GOOD!
The CMPD is holding a ‘Zero Tolerance’ Distracted Driving Enforcement Operation between April 13 and April 27, 2011.
Drivers who break the law and place themselves and others in danger will be cited. The current minimum ticket cost is $159, with subsequent tickets costing at least $279.
Distracted driving is a serious traffic safety concern that puts everyone on the road at risk. As a result, law enforcement across the state, including Costa Mesa are increasingly cracking down on cell phone use and texting. This April will see over 225 local agencies plus the 103 CHP Area Commands conducting zero tolerance enforcements.
“We take the issue of distracted driving very seriously.” said Costa Mesa Police Chief Steve Staveley.
“Costa Mesa has already experienced one tragic loss of life in 2010 due to a distracted driver running a red light. If we can prevent further losses through a zero tolerance distracted driving campaign, then I completely support it.”
Drivers who use hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. Younger, inexperienced drivers under 20 years old have the highest proportion of distraction-related fatal crashes. In addition, studies show that texting while driving can delay a driver’s reaction time just as severely as having a blood alcohol content of a legally drunk driver.
Studies show that there is no difference in the risks between hands-free and hand-held cell phone conversations, both of which can result in “inattention blindness” which occurs when the brain is not seeing what is clearly visible because the drivers’ focus is on the phone conversation and not on the road.
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WANT TO JOIN THE RESISTANCE TO COSTA MESA BEING TAKEN OVER BY OUT OF TOWN INTERESTS?
The Costa Mesa Taxpayers Association looks like it might be a pretty good organization to join to help citizens of Costa Mesa fight the out of town thugs.
This is our city. We live here. We send our kids to school here. We shop here. We pay taxes here. We vote here. We are not carpetbaggers who come here and punch time clocks and then leave at quitting time.
We have no quitting time. We are full time citizens of Costa Mesa.
Here's the link to their Website where you can learn more and join the resistance.
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LAST BUILDING IN CABRINI-GREEN SLUM BEING DEMOLISHED
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Cabrini-Green was the idea of "experts" who said it would lead the way to urban renewal in Chicago.
It didn't. Cabrini-Green soon became a gang infested, high crime minority slum. Whites wanted no part of it.
Costa Mesa also has some slums, albeit smaller than Cabrini-Green, but they should also be demolished.
We have a mealy-mouthed guy on the no-Planning Commission--Rob Dickson--who probably disagrees with us, as he disagreed with us in the past about there being pollution on the Westside or that illegal aliens are hired by factories on our bluffs. This character even sneered at Improvers as "self-described Improvers."
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JEFF EAST TELLS YOU THAT WE NEED TO TAKE BACK COSTA MESA
Well, it was a rainy day and there were, like, clouds overhead and well, it was wet and the grass was wet and the people, like, were standing there with downcast eyes in the wet rain, and, golly, some were talking and Costa Mesa is such a swell place, and why we have a big shopping center, and, ah, there are city employees, and geez, the City Council is moving too fast, they need to slow down and, er, smell the flowers, ah, that are wet because there's, like, an overcast sky.
So, you can see from my well reasoned above arguments that we shouldn't do anything about our budget problems.
We need to take, like, the City back from, er, whomever now has it, because, well, it belongs to the out of town employees, and the citizens of Costa Mesa work for them and owe them life time employment and big homes in far away cities.
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LINK TO REPAIR COSTA MESA'S WEBSITE
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As of this writing, there is no information on the website about who is behind it. But scroll down to our earlier articles for more information.
Note that even though the website doesn't tell you anything about who they are, they want to know your personal information. Why? Because they want to use you as a puppet to puff up a phony astro-turf organization.
Say, that's not a bad photo of Gary Monahan. Maybe he can get that framed or put on a business card.
Be sure to patronize Monahan's if you want to support getting our municipal government right sized.
By the way, we would really like to see a list of zip codes where our City employees live.
When we were last able to get some of this information, we found that
more than 75% of cops don't live here. Then, when we tried to get a more recent list and a list not just of our cops but all City employees, the City refused to give us such a list.
No, we didn't ask for a list giving names or other personal information. We just asked for a list with everything else redacted except zip codes and general job descriptions.
Maybe our new City Council members can get such a list. We think it would be very revealing to the citizens of Costa Mesa to see just how few of our City employees actually choose to live in Costa Mesa.
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HERE'S A QUOTE BY "sissycasper" THAT IS APPEARING OVER AT THE OC REGISTER
sissycasper
5:18 AM on March 30, 2011
Comparing the City Council to patriots. I am laughing my head off. Hitler is more like it. Costa Mesa makes Bell looks like a joke.
sissycasper, please contact us. Are you the person who works for the City of Costa Mesa with that name, or are you a different Sissy Casper? Also, are you the person who sometimes uses the name debbiemallard1? Is your first name Deborah?
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COURT: EAGLE FEATHERS ONLY FOR AMERICAN INDIANS
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Essentially, some non-Indians want to use Eagle feathers for religious purposes. The court ruled they can't do that, but that Indians recognized by the government as Indians can do that.
This is an important case about religious freedom and it's headed to the Supreme Court where we expect the lower court ruling will be overturned.
Many cases on our basic freedoms often do turn on such seemingly minor things.
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WHO IS REPAIR COSTA MESA?
According to this article in the OC Register [HERE], Repair Costa Mesa is composed of Greg Ridge (who often posts as Gericault), Sandy Genis, and Gus Ayer, a former Fountain Valley Councilman.
Ridge and
Genis were also the front 'group' (if you can call two people a group) that received union money in an attempt to defeat
Jim Righeimer in the last election.
The CM PRESS published their financial disclosure forms. What the forms showed was that thousands of dollars in out of town money was given to the duo who then printed up flyers and signs against
Righeimer and for lefties
Windy (sic) Leece and
Chris McEvoy.
When last heard from,
Ridge and two other people recently called a "big" press conference at City Hall about healing Costa Mesa or something like that. The press conference was apparently attended by the three and the Daily Pilot.
Yawn.
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OUT OF TOWN THUGS WANT TO KEEP PICKING YOUR POCKETS
It looks like the out of town thugs are going to pour money into trying to keep Costa Mesa as Serf City.
We're already seeing a few of their local panty waists step up with overly emotional pleas.
On an intellectual level we find this interesting as a real world experiment in human group psychology.
The question can be framed this way: Can the out of town thugs convince the people of Costa Mesa to not act in their own best interests, or can those who can clearly see what's going on convince these same citizens to do what's best for themselves and their families?
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WE SEND A LETTER TO THE DAILY PILOT ABOUT THE MENSINGER/WEST 'DEBATE'
3/29/11
Editor Daily Pilot:
Re: Mensinger/West debate on outsourcing
That's a debate on outsourcing?
I read Steve Mensinger's well reasoned piece on outsourcing and it was full of facts and figures; just as one might expect from someone who is logically calling for a certain course of action.
Then, I read the contra piece by Geoff West and found no facts. It was just an over emotional regurgitation of past events. There was no logic. There were no reasoned arguments. It was just plain silly.
Maybe West shouldn't be faulted. There really are no facts to support his position, which seems to be to do nothing and just keep the status quo.
Then again, West's overblown and shrill adjectives not only add nothing to the debate on outsourcing, they also had nothing to the discussion of the root issue about what to do about the ocean of red ink we have in Costa Mesa.
Perhaps you think I'm being too harsh on West? If so, imagine you are on the City Council. Then go back and take his column apart sentence by sentence and see if you can find any facts that would help you make a reasoned decision about how to right the upside down financial ship that is Costa Mesa.
Has he given you--as a Councilperson--any facts upon which you can act to fulfill your fiduciary responsibility to the citizens of Costa Mesa?
All you'll find from West are sentences about people standing in the rain and similar things, along with a thinly veiled attempt to ramp up hatred against those who are trying to get Costa Mesa back to where the City is fixing roads and parks and the other things we expect, and not just being an ATM constantly being filled in the back by citizens and emptied in the front by employees.
Costa Mesa's government needs to be right sized. These are difficult times and emotional arguments help no one.
In a previous column, I wrote that any employees who are laid off should be given the opportunity to work for firms that are selected to provide services for the city.
It sounds as though Mr. Mensinger also wants to have that happen.
M. H. Millard
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