THE LIE ABOUT THE BIG LIE
At the last City Council meeting, the usual Go Slow types trotted out their latest none too bright attempt to come up with a slogan or catch phrase as we move deeper into the election season.
The claim made by many of the speakers was that Jim Righimer is using the Big Lie technique to fool people.
What is that Big Lie that Righeimer is telling everyone? Ah, er, the correct answer is that he isn't using a Big Lie at all.
Righeimer is saying (my words now) that we're paying too much in salaries and benefits and we may be able to do better by shopping for the best deal. There's no Big Lie in that. It's the simple truth, and most thinking people know it.
Sorry, Go Slow types, that slogan has no legs. Say, maybe you can pull a big A frame sign around the city.
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THIS JUST IN: COSTA MESA TO BET BIG BUCKS TO MITIGATE TRAFFIC IF BANNING RANCH IS APPROVED
Here's the press release we just received:
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BLACK JUDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA SAYS BLACK CRIMINAL WHO MURDERED A WHITE TEEN SHOULDN'T GET THE DEATH PENALTY
Surprised? We aren't.
There needs to be justice for White victims of Black criminals. Maybe President Romney will help even the scales of justice.
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EVEN THE LEFTY MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES NOW WANTS TO CONTROL CITY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
At the last City Council meeting, the usual Go Slow types trotted out their latest none too bright attempt to come up with a slogan or catch phrase as we move deeper into the election season.
The claim made by many of the speakers was that Jim Righimer is using the Big Lie technique to fool people.
What is that Big Lie that Righeimer is telling everyone? Ah, er, the correct answer is that he isn't using a Big Lie at all.
Righeimer is saying (my words now) that we're paying too much in salaries and benefits and we may be able to do better by shopping for the best deal. There's no Big Lie in that. It's the simple truth, and most thinking people know it.
Sorry, Go Slow types, that slogan has no legs. Say, maybe you can pull a big A frame sign around the city.
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THIS JUST IN: COSTA MESA TO BET BIG BUCKS TO MITIGATE TRAFFIC IF BANNING RANCH IS APPROVED
Here's the press release we just received:
COSTA
MESA, CALIF.—The City of Costa Mesa will receive approximately $4.4 million for
traffic improvements if the Banning Ranch project is approved by the Newport
Beach City Council and California Coastal Commission.
The
proposed project in West Newport Beach is
currently before the Newport Beach Planning Commission. Costa Mesa
If
the 402-acre project is approved and implemented, developers of the project
would pay Costa Mesa $4.4 million to mitigate congestion at six or seven Costa
Mesa intersections identified in the development’s Environmental Impact Report
(EIR) as being impacted by additional traffic. This amount is significantly
more than the traffic mitigation fees of approximately $1.7 million that would
be generated for a similar-sized project in Costa Mesa
The
Costa Mesa
“In
order to assure we have adequate funds from Banning Ranch to complete the
needed mitigations at the six or seven intersections, it was prudent to
negotiate these costs before the final approval of the project,” said Peter
Naghavi, deputy chief executive officer and economic development director. “The
best process is to discuss these issues with Banning Ranch so the City would be
in a better position if in fact the project is approved.”
A
staff report on the traffic mitigation measures and their funding is
tentatively scheduled to be on the Costa Mesa City Council agenda on May 15.
Bill Lobdell I Director of Communications I
949.887.2541
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BLACK JUDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA SAYS BLACK CRIMINAL WHO MURDERED A WHITE TEEN SHOULDN'T GET THE DEATH PENALTY
Surprised? We aren't.
There needs to be justice for White victims of Black criminals. Maybe President Romney will help even the scales of justice.
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EVEN THE LEFTY MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES NOW WANTS TO CONTROL CITY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Just like responsible politicians in Costa Mesa (that does not include Wendy Leece) and many other cities.
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| Disgusting sign used by out of town union members in last election. |
1. The good Councilmembers are not evil, as some other bloggers want you to believe. They are our neighbors who we have elected to part time positions on the City Council.
In their capacity on the Council they owe a fiduciary duty (that means a duty of trust) to the citizens of Costa Mesa. This means they should try to do what is best for the CITIZENS of Costa Mesa. It does not mean that they should screw citizens to benefit employees as have some previous Councilmembers and which some of the frequent speakers at City Council meetings want the present Councilmembers to do.
2. Most City employees don't live in Costa Mesa and can't vote here. Their spouses don't shop in our markets and their kids don't go to our schools. These out of town employees punch a time clock and go home to their own cities at the end of their shifts, leaving us here to live with the conditions that they may have helped or not helped.
Yet, these people who we pay, but who choose not to live with us and who don't live as we live, try to elect City Council members who will do their bidding by pumping thousands of dollars into the political coffers of politicians who will go along with these employees to get along.
3. Most City employees belong to unions, but because "union" has a bad tinge to it in many circles they say they belong to "associations." Well, folks, I belong to the Screen Actors Guild, and I hear other Guild members say we're not in a union, we're in a guild. This is silly. SAG is effectively a union and the employee associations in Costa Mesa are also effectively unions. They quack like ducks....
One thing some of these Costa Mesa employee association members and supporters claim, in an attempt to confuse you, is that they're not in a union because the employee associations are voluntary. Well, compulsion to join is not part of the definition of a union. When I worked for the New York Times in NYC, I had to join the union. That's because NY is not a right to work state. California, on the other hand, is a right to work state, so you are not forced to join a union when you take a particular job, but you can voluntarily join one if there is one available.
4. The good City Councilmembers, it seems to me, are trying to shrink local government and get it on more of a business footing. This means, in part, that they want to save money and shop for services and goods, just as each of us does in our private lives, instead of just paying the highest price.
5. Do we think the good Councilmembers are making all the right decisions? Nope. We think they've made some mistakes and we call them on what we consider to be such mistakes from time to time. But, we think, on balance, that they're doing a pretty good job and that they shouldn't be the subject of all the hate that is coming from out of town union employees and their local lefty friends in the city.
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| Not Geoff West (not Tom Johnson either) |
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| Geoff West and his pal GoSlow Wendy |
Unfortunately, it appears that The Current isn't on-line, so you'll have to pick it up in a free news rack "all over town," or find it folded inside your OC REGISTER.
In his column, Johnson writes about unoriginal lefty local blogger Geoff West who seems to have a one page thesaurus that he works from.
It's all "screeds" and "good old boys" and similar terms from this character West who seems to lack generative power. And, West always seems on the verge of hysteria over the most mundane things that the good Councilmembers propose. It's the stuff of Chicken Little.
Most Improvers tell us that they don't read West's blog because he has nothing to say and just tries to obstruct any genuine improvement in the city.
In comments we see in the Daily Pilot, we note that West gets praise from the usual few low I.Q. fan boys and fan girls who don't want Costa Mesa to be run more efficiently and who don't want the present good Councilmembers to shut down the citizen funded Golden Goose that allows City employees to make much more money and have greater benefits than the majority of Costa Mesans.
We accidentally clicked on his blog recently, and noted that West seems to have copied the style of the CM PRESS. Ho hum.
Oh, Johnson also obliquely mentions He Who Must Not Be Named in his column.
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RUSSIA: ETHNIC RUSSIANS TO OPEN CENTER FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION
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MY SPEECH IS GOOD, YOURS IS EVIL (Bigots want to censor the internet)by H. Millard (c) 2012
Not long ago, according to news reports, a Jewish group announced that it was teaming up with various internet providers to censor and stop the publication of what the group doesn't want people to see or read.
We've seen the same thing from Christian groups also, but the major difference is that the Christian groups mostly want to censor free speech rights relating to sexual matters, while the Jewish group is after political and philosophical speech.
The Jewish group often labels these things that they don't want people to see or read: "bigotry, hate, racist, anti-Semitic." Now, if the call to censor free speech was aimed exclusively at on-line threats, this would be one thing, but chillingly, the call is to censor virtually any free speech that the Jewish group doesn't like, and this is accomplished through the simple device of labeling any speech it doesn't like with one of the aforementioned boogey man words.
Those who set themselves up as Lords of Speech and who try to restrict free speech, need to be reminded that petty tyrants throughout history have always used some fine sounding phrases and words to deny civil rights to others, and to censor speech that the petty tyrants didn't like.
Consider the history of the Talmud, a book revered by Jews, as just one example of what happens when the small-minded among us have their way. Over the centuries, the Talmud was censored, re-written, burned, and banned, because various petty tyrants believed it was "anti-Christian," or "evil" or sanctioned "baby sacrifices," or any of a host of other "hateful, bigoted, racist" things.
Because the Talmud was so labeled, mobs in various nations were worked up into a frenzy at different times, and the result was often violent acts against Jews, based, not on a fair reading of the Talmud---which, remember, was banned and couldn't be read---but upon the characterizations of what it said by those who put the hateful characterizations on it.
Perhaps, if the people were able to read the Talmud they would have come to different conclusions as to its content and much of the violence directed at Jews, would have been prevented. Perhaps there might not have been a Holocaust.
The place for ideas, whether we like them or not, is right out there in front of us where they can compete with other ideas.
The founders of this nation realized that, and gave us, not the l0th or l2th or 14th Amendment to protect free speech. Instead, they put our protections for free speech right in the very first amendment. All our other freedoms depend on this.
It is the First Amendment which is the wellspring of our democracy. It is from the First Amendment that all freedoms flow. Without the right to free speech and expression, no other freedoms are genuine.
One of the methods used by petty tyrants in their quest to keep speech that they don't like stiffled, is to take a worst case example, say, something like "Kill all_____(fill in the blank)," label it "hate speech" and then lump all other speech they don't like under this worst case example.
All freedom-loving citizens should resist all calls at censorship, and particularly those that call for censoring political and philosophical speech, which is what seems to be happening with this call to censor the internet.
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AGENDA FOR NEXT MONDAY'S (4/23) PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
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