CM PRESS # 984

ONE OF THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE 3Ms AND THE CM4RG AS WE SEE IT--GIVE THE CITIZENS A FISH OR GIVE THEM A FISH HOOK

The CM PRESS believes that the 3Ms feel that the best way to improve Costa Mesa is to free up money to use to fix streets, sidewalks, parks and eventually to buy up and raze slum buildings and crime infested motels. We believe this is the best way to  attract upwardly mobile families back to the city who, by their presence, will help the whole city and its schools improve.

The CM PRESS believes the CM4RG folks, on the other hand, feel that the best way to improve Costa Mesa is to hire more City workers, including more police officers, et. al.

We  liken the two ways as being similar to the old adage about giving a man a fish and he'll be hungry the next day, but if you give him a fish hook, he'll never go hungry.

 We see the 3Ms as offering the fish hook, while the CM4RGs are offering a fish.
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BREAKING NEWS: JUDGE RULES THAT ARIZONA COPS CAN START CHECKING IMMIGRATION STATUS IMMEDIATELY

Good news.
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MARYLAND:  BLACK WOMAN SLASHES MAN'S FACE ON SUBWAY

Video.

You'll note that the race of the man she slashed is not given.  That's the usual MO of the media when the victim is White and the attacker Black.
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SOME HAVE ASKED ABOUT MY POLITICAL VIEWS

I'm a registered Republican, but I have a strong streak of libertarianism.

That means I believe in personal freedom and personal responsibility, and I think the government should stay out of people's lives as much as possible.

Now, about my libertarian bona fides:  I was one of the first members (probably about the fifth member) of a very early libertarian group in New York City called The Society for Individual Liberty.  This group predated the Libertarian political party by about five years.

We would meet and try to formulate principles that we could all agree on (talk about herding cats) and we would try to spread our message.  I remember at one meeting, we asked our membership secretary how many members we had, and he replied that since we believed in so much personal freedom we had no way of knowing who was a member and who wasn't. The group also published at least one of my early writings.

How did I originally get involved in libertarianism?  Prior to moving to New York for acting, I lived in Washington, D.C. and was dating a girl who got a job in the office of Young Americans For Freedom (YAF).  As a result, I went to some of their functions during a time when that group was talking a lot about libertarianism  and I agreed with a lot (but not all) of their philosophical positions.

David Nolan, one of the founders of the the Libertarian Party was also a member of YAF, in the '60's,but I don't remember if I ever met him or not.
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John Stephens (a lawyer with
offices in Newport Beach)

JOHN STEPHENS (he's a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach) HUFFS AND PUFFS IN HIS LATEST SELF-SERVING COLUMN IN THE DAILY PILOT TO TRY TO SHOW THAT, GOLLY, HE'S JUST A REGULAR GUY

Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach, don't you know) seems (to us at least) to have fallen out of bed one day a couple of months ago and perhaps (we imagine) said something like this as he admired himself in his three piece, pinstripe, pajamas in the mirror [put Vaseline around the edge of the camera lens at this point for dreamy fictional sequence]: "Golly gosh, I'm John Stephens, and I'm a liberal Democrat and a lawyer (with offices in Newport Beach), so I think it would be fun to get a seat on the Costa Mesa City Council. It'll be a neat hobby for a swell guy like me. And, I'll show those peons a thing or two. Yup, before I take my kids to their private schools I'll announce my candidacy." [Fade to black.]

And, since that time, Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach) has been spending his time telling everyone that he's a lawyer (with offices in Newport Beach). But lately, the peons don't seem to be too impressed with that, so in his above column in the Daily Pilot (HERE it is again), Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach) wants you peons to know that, shucks, he's "scraped plenty of congealed nacho cheese from the bottom of the CMALL snack bar crock pot."  

We kid you not. That's what Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach) wrote. Why, shoot howdy, he's just a regular fella with nacho cheese on his fingers.

Harold Weitzberg

Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach) is also the guy who went to court to keep you peons from voting on the charter back in June. Remember?

So now, we have Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach) joined with Harold Weitzberg, another liberal Democrat, and Sandy Genis trying to take over the City Council where they will no doubt do their usual liberal nonsense and shut down the improvement of Costa Mesa and spend our tax money like crazy as they hire ever more redundant workers on the City payroll to super-size local government again.

Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach) and Weitzberg seem to have something else in common.  Stephens (a lawyer with offices in Newport Beach), as we mentioned above, helped keep you peons from voting on the charter in June, and Weitzberg tried to keep you peons from hearing what a man had to say at a City Council meeting by shouting him down.

Do you peons see a pattern here?
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