Saturday, September 29, 2012

CM PRESS # 994

LOWER BACK PAIN?  CHECK YOUR PARK 2 GENE

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!

When these cowardly thugs don't want voters to hear what they have to say, they shout them down.  When they don't want voters to see their signs, they deface them and steal them.

Don't let the thugs win, vote Yes on the Charter (Measure V) and vote for the 3Ms!

Remember, if you see a sign stolen of defaced and you see a police car in the area, be sure to report it to the candidates and the City Council.  Try to get the number off the police car and note the time and date, when you report it.
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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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3 comments:

  1. Re. MMM and measure V,

    You should submit this post to the Register for a bigger audience.

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  2. Thanks. I did send it over to the Daily Pilot (twice) but they didn't choose to run it.

    Maybe I'll try the OC REGISTER.

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  3. Costa Mesan for Costa MesaSeptember 30, 2012 at 11:48:00 AM PDT

    Martin,

    My 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.

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