No doubt this will enrage the Good Whites who love to be insulted and discriminated against because of the color of their skin. Sickos.
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| Not Sandy Genis and not Jim Righeimer |
In her above column in the DAILY PILOT, Sandy Genis tells readers how she once served on a Charter Commission and they took nine months to come up with a charter.
She also wants Costa Mesa to slow down concerning the charter.
Why? The work on studying charters has already been done--Genis spent months doing some slow thinking on the subject--so why reinvent the wheel?
Is Costa Mesa so different from other cities that have charters that we now have to start from scratch in order to listen to the usual assortment of lefty kooks who show up at City Council meetings to waste our time with their screwball ideas that will not be accepted?
The City should proceed with the draft proposal and take input as it is presently doing. It's a good framework.
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THE 19TH STREET BRIDGE MEETING LAST NIGHT--THE BRIDGE LOST THE BATTLE, BUT MAYBE NOT THE WAR...YET
Huntington Beach's Eader Elementary School's auditorium was jam packed to 3 and 4 deep standing room only and there were a couple of hundred people who couldn't squeeze in who stood outside trying to listen at the door.
Our guess is that nearly 100 % of the people there were against the bridge in any shape or form.
The battle to build a bridge now is basically over and the bridge lost.
But, The Bridge War Isn't Over
The bridge war isn't over yet because if the proposed bridge remains conceptually on the Master Plan of Arterial Highways (MPAH), developers can use the mere mention that it is still on the MPAH to over-develop now--as though the bridge is actually there--and add thousands of vehicle trips now.
The result of this fictional bridge but real cars will be that the traffic will increase to such a level that intersections will fail and then a couple of years from now there will be another push to put in a bridge.
The argument then will be: "Gee, you let us add all this traffic a few years ago because of the fictional bridge on the MPAH. Now, we need the actual physical manifestation of that fictional bridge to relieve the traffic and help our residents have free flowing streets."
So, in order for the bridge war to be won, mention of the bridge MUST be removed from the MPAH.
Remember the above as we get more into the election this year.
If a politician says he or she is against the bridge (and any local politician who is half-smart who doesn't say that, may not get elected), don't get all gushy. Ask them if they are for removing mention of the bridge from the MPAH.
That's the real test: removal of every mention of the bridge from MPAH.
And, that's where the problem lies, because Newport Beach can refuse to let mention of the bridge be removed from the MPAH.
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Speaking of genes...
FOURTEEN PEOPLE WERE SHOT IN SEPARATE SHOOTINGS IN CHICAGO ON THURSDAY
[The low consciousness Good White People, as they shuffle to the back of the bus, say, in unison: "What do genes have to do with it?]
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KENNEDY WITH MC1R GENE VARIANT ON CHROMOSOME 16 TO RUN FOR BARNEY FRANK'S CONGRESSIONAL SEAT
Here's how to control this guy's liberal impulses: expose him to ultraviolet light and threaten to do some dental work on him without putting him to sleep.
Those with this gene variant (it causes red hair, fair skin, freckles and light eyes) are sensitive to ultraviolet light and are resistant to subcutaneous anesthetics.
"Okay, Kennedy," says the GOP muscle, "we got your number, see. Vote the way we want or we're gonna shine this light on you and then have our loyal Republican dentist do some work on your teeth. Got it?"
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Our position...
NO BRIDGE!
Back when the Improvers were just getting started in trying to improve the Westside, the CM PRESS was against the 19th Street Bridge and we often spoke before the City Council every time one particular resident of Mesa Verde would call for the bridge (which was at almost every City Council meeting). We were usually the lone voice speaking against the bridge.
Our way of coming to our NO BRIDGE decision was based on the way we come to every decision. That is, every action we take in life is either good, neutral, or bad.
And, in the context of the Westside, good means the area is improved, neutral means nothing changes, and bad means it will make the Westside worse.
But back then, before we came to the NO BRIDGE position, we briefly thought that a bridge and increased traffic on 19th Street, and especially west of Placentia, might make the street more attractive to a major supermarket along with some up scale retailers.
In fact, such increased traffic might, indeed, attract the attention of such a supermarket and retailers, but on closer look, the site selectors for supermarkets and top retailers might realize, as we did, that the traffic is not good traffic. It is not going to be primarily Costa Mesa traffic with cars full of Costa MENSANS (oops), going to their local stores. The traffic would be fast moving commuter and beach traffic just cutting through Costa Mesa.
In addition, given the fact that most of the lots on W. 19th Street are very small and shallow, a developer would have to find a way to deepen those lots and assemble many of them to accommodate the footprint for a major supermarket and its surrounding stores. The only way to do that would be to use eminent domain and remove residential units that back up to the present commercial lots on W. 19th Street. And, that's not going to happen.
Now, even though we are against the bridge, we still, as always and on every subject, have an open mind and if anyone can convince us that our logic as briefly outlined above is wrong, we might reconsider. But, we don't see that happening.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
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