Genes are us.
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ROCKY MARCIANO TRIBUTE FILM
Speaking of size of the fight in the man (as we do in the column below) Marciano--the only unbeaten heavyweight champ in boxing--fits the bill.
Rocky was only 5 ft. 11 in tall and weighed 184 lbs. He had short arms (67" reach) and stubby legs, and he had to take a lot of punishment to get inside where he could connect. And, once on the inside he was likely to knock out his opponent. Watch the video above and you'll see he put his whole body behind his piston like arms when he punched.
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ALEKSANDR POVETKIN BEATS HASIM RAHMAN TO A PULP IN TWO ROUNDS
Proving what my father always used to tell me: "It's not the size of the man in the fight that matters, but the size of the fight in the man," Povetkin, who gave away about 30 lbs to Rahman, beat Rahman to a pulp and the referee had to stop the fight in the second round.
Here's video of the weigh in.
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COWARDLY THUGS ARE DEFACING AND STEALING LARGE 3Ms BANNERS!
Don't let the thugs win, vote Yes on the Charter (Measure V) and vote for the 3Ms!
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Why I'm Voting for the Charter
by M. H. Millard
I believe that government that is small and closest to the
people is generally the best. I like every smidgen of local control that we can
wrest from bloated, faraway Sacramento (also from D.C., but that's for a
different column).
To me, letting the politicians in Sacramento
have the say on every bit of minutiae in Costa Mesa is like having an apartment
complex with hundreds of apartments but with all the controls for the TV, the
heating and air-conditioning, and the hot and cold water for the shower located
up in the Sacramento Penthouse where a small group of elites will decide
what is right for them and then force that on all the other apartment dwellers.
Thank you very much elites up in the Sacramento Penthouse,
but I'm an adult and I'll control my own TV, my own heating and
air-conditioning, and also the hot and cold water in my shower. You do
not know what is best for me, you folks up there in the Sacramento Penthouse,
so butt out.
I've seen a few arguments against the charter and they
mostly seem to be of three general types:
The proposed charter is a Cut and Paste Job--Well,
yes, that's how all contracts and legal documents are crafted. No one
starts with a blank piece of paper. When drafting such documents you find
clauses already in existence which have passed legal muster and you use them in
your new document.
One of the City Council candidates who opposes the charter
is an attorney (as he tells everyone at every opportunity). Ask him how he puts
together contracts. If he's truthful, he'll tell you that he has all the
clauses in his computer and he cuts and pastes. No one with any sense
tries to reinvent the wheel.
The proposed charter will put too much power in the hands
of the City Council---Nope. The Council already has the power to do
what it thinks is necessary to govern Costa Mesa. They derive that power
from us. The charter simply gives the people of Costa Mesa a little more
power, which we will exercise through our elected representatives.
Except in small villages and towns, usually found in rural
New England, we do not have pure democracies. The reason we don't is
because with larger populations it makes no sense to have all the voters show
up at Town Meetings to vote whether or not to spend $ 13.45 to buy Old Bob the
street cleaner a new snow shovel or not. Instead, we have representative
democracies. We vote for representatives--in our case, City Council
members--and they figure out whether or not to buy Old Bob his snow shovel.
And if you've ever seen a City Council meeting in Costa Mesa
where you have men showing up in Tutus, people shouting down speakers they
don't agree with, people singing while at the podium, other people talking
about drilling oil wells when the subject is the city budget, and all the rest,
you'll get an idea why a pure democracy wouldn't work in a city the size of
Costa Mesa. Poor Old Bob would be down to a shovel with no blade and the
citizens still wouldn't have decided whether or not to buy him a new shovel.
You'd quickly become a fan of our lack of snow and our representative
government.
The proposed charter wasn't the product of a committee of
citizens-- So what? Here's a heads up on how the real world works.
Often times when those running a City form a non-blue-ribbon committee of
ordinary citizens with no real experience in the subject being discussed it is
a purely psychological move to give the appearance that everyone contributed,
and thus have citizens buy into whatever is decided even though they have
usually been manipulated to a certain decision that was made beforehand
and really didn't contribute anything.
Instead of wasting our time on an illusory committee, we
will now have the opportunity to vote up or down on a well written charter in
November.
Here's something else. Some of the folks who oppose the
charter remind me of some of the Loyalists who wanted the colonies to remain
part of England. Read some of the history of that era and you'll see what
I mean. Same types of personalities. Same arguments.
To repeat. On election day, you can vote for a little more
freedom for Costa Mesa by voting for the charter, or you can vote to have
Sacramento dictate to us. It's no more complicated than that.
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Re. MMM and measure V,
ReplyDeleteYou should submit this post to the Register for a bigger audience.
Thanks. I did send it over to the Daily Pilot (twice) but they didn't choose to run it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll try the OC REGISTER.
Martin,
ReplyDeleteMy mistake, when I posted prior message, I was thinking CM4CM = Costa Mesans for Costa Mesa and was not thinking of any candidate in particular. This request is not from a candidate. Sorry for the mistake.