CM PRESS # 64

Not Geoff West

WHEN YOU'RE A BUSY EXECUTIVE IT ALWAYS HELPS TO HAVE A GOOD SECRETARY WHO CAN TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE DETAILS

Here in the corner office at CM PRESS HQ, we're lucky to  have Geoff West, who seems to want to fill that function from afar, as he sends us messages from time to time about some of the details that we're too busy to worry about or which we miss as we make the big decisions.

This is Geoff
West

Today, West let us know that THE CURRENT went full page last week, not this week, as we reported down below.  The problem was that we didn't get THE CURRENT last week--darn paperboy--so we didn't know that.

Of course, that doesn't make one bit of difference to the thrust of our story which was to speculate that THE CURRENT may be attempting to take on the DAILY PILOT as the newspaper of record (as we used to call the New York Times when I worked at their HQ on 42nd Street in NYC).

Keep up the good work, West. Take an extra ten minutes for lunch. No, don't thank us.  We want you to eat well.
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Tom Egan

THE COMMENTS FROM THE OPPOSITION ARE GETTING REALLY HILARIOUS OVER IN THE DAILY PILOT

In a letter to the Daily Pilot, Tom Egan writes, in relevant part, "Do we really want to give [the Jim Righeimer-led council] more power [with a charter] to further tear up our low-stress city?"

 "Tear up"? "Low-stress city"?  Odd choice of words.

If Costa Mesa was low-stress before Righeimer and company came on board it was because no one was bucking the long time lefty-charity complex that was doing nothing to improve the Westside or the rest of the city and was simply rolling over and giving most of our tax money to a bloated government and redundant out of town employees.

Oh well, let me answer Tom's question.  Yes, Tom, I, for one, do want to see Righeimer and the other good Councilmembers continue to right-size government and reorder our priorities so we can finally improve the Westside to be the great part of town it should be.

And, I do also want to see them put more money into fixing other parts of Costa Mesa  to stop our slide into being a permanent skid row or new Santa Ana, full of crime and almost nightly gang shootings and similar problems. You betcha. Yup. Uh-huh. That's what I want. No doubt about it. I think a lot of other citizens want the same thing.

And, as our city is improved, our schools will improve.  You know about the schools, don't you Tom?  You were on the school board for a while.  Say, what did you do over there?  The schools don't seem to have improved as a result of your time there.  Did you have a nice non-stressful time on the board, maybe making no waves, just kind of  going along to get along?

Say, Tom, speaking of the schools and the school board, what do you have to say about your pal Katrina Foley who is now on the school board and who has  pulled her kids out of Costa Mesa schools and put them in schools in faraway Newport Beach even though the schools her kids can attend in Costa Mesa are almost within sight of Foley's home?  Any thoughts about that?  How can she properly represent the north part of Costa Mesa on the school board, when she won't even put her kids in the schools in our part of town?

You see, Tom, I bring all this stuff up because it's all connected. Improvement, the schools, the charities, the Westside, our quality of life. All connected.  And, the essential elements in Costa Mesa, as in every other city, are its people.

If a city attracts upwardly mobile people, then everything gets better.  Crime goes down, the schools improve, and the quality of life of stable citizens improves.  It's all connected.  And, to attract upwardly mobile people, you have to start improving the city.  You have to thin out the slums.  You have to stop encouraging the charities that are acting as magnets to attract and retain downwardly mobile people and illegal aliens and you have to do all those other things that make the city attractive to upwardly mobile people.

See, Tom, as I've written before, a City attracts people the way a bar attracts people. If you have a cowboy themed bar, you'll attract cowboys.  If you have a singles themed bar, you'll attract singles.  People gravitate to where they feel comfortable.

Been over to Lions Park, recently, Tom?  Many of the citizens in Costa Mesa can't even use that park or the adjacent library. They're afraid to take their kids there.  It's very low stress for the people who live and hang out in the park because it's near the charities where they can get free food, free medical care, free dental care and much more, but it's very high stress for stable citizens who are the backbone of this city and who pay for the park.

To improve Costa Mesa requires that the city government have the right priorities and not just let the city drift as it has in the past.  There has to be a vision of an improved city and there have to be people with the gumption to make improvement happen.

Yes, Tom, change can be stressful to some people, but we need to change or Costa Mesa won't be the place where you'll want to live. Why, without change the city may not have schools where a school board member will want to enroll her own children. Oh, we're already at that point, aren't we?

Well, Tom, we don't need stress adverse people on the City Council.  We need people there who want to improve this city, who know how to do it, and who have the balls to make it happen.This will mean that they'll have to step on the toes of the lefty-charity complex bosses and their running dogs and assorted others who are improvement obstructionists.

Say, Tom, have you considered taking up knitting?  I hear that's low stress.

Be sure to read all of Egan's letter HERE.
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RAMZPAUL SHORT VIDEO ON BOB COSTAS AND GUN CONTROL

Asks why it is that places such as Chicago, with strict gun control laws, have more gun crime than areas such as Wyoming with almost no gun control laws; and he wonders if maybe the crime might be caused by something other than guns.  Hmmmm.  What could that be?
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ISRAELI POLITICIANS BRAG THAT THEY HAVE STOPPED ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INTO ISRAEL

Meanwhile, in the USA, our politicians are trying to reward illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.
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SPEAKING OF THE CURRENT AND THE OC REGISTER--THERE'S A SERIES OF ARTICLES THERE TODAY[HERE] ABOUT THE HOMELESS IN COSTA MESA. THE ARTICLES TOUCH ON THE CHARITIES--SO, HERE'S A RERUN OF A RELEVANT COLUMN WE WROTE IN CM PRESS #29 ON NOVEMBER 2, 2012--BE SURE TO NOTE THE SALARIES OF THE CHARITY BOSSES--COMPASSION PAYS

Outside the main library adjacent to Lions Park

Too many people think the charity bosses* are donating their time for free, when they're actually making good money in what are actually businesses except for the fact that the business entity itself can't show a profit.  

Because the business entity itself can't show a profit doesn't mean that those who work for it aren't making good money and getting good benefits and great job security so long as they can keep attracting more clients to use their services.

And, what great businesses they are.  For starters, some people think you're a new Mother Teresa.  Then, you get people--often from Newport Beach--who volunteer their time for free to help you.  And, then these "compassionate" free helpers, who are often pathological altruists, go out and praise you for your work and attack, via newspaper and blog comments, citizens in the community who want to see an improved Costa Mesa.  Meanwhile, you, as a charity boss, get great job security.

The compensation figures below are rounded up and come from the actual  990's (yearly tax forms) of some charities in Costa Mesa that help the homeless and illegal aliens.

From 990 - Jul 1, 2010--June 30, 2011--Here's what the charity bosses made from their charity work:

Charity Boss # 1  made $ 154,000 

Charity Boss # 2: made $ 170,000 

Charity Boss # 3: made $ 128,000

Charity Boss # 4: made $ 120,000

Charity Boss # 5: made $ 111,000 

Charity Boss # 6: made $  68,000 

Those kind of compensation figures can only continue if the charity bosses can keep attracting more clients to their charity businesses (see, it works just like a hamburger stand or any other business).  

If they have fewer clients, the charity bosses won't make as much money, or may even go out of business, so it behooves them to attract ever more needy clients.

Help those in need but don't be a magnet

Folks, the problem we have in Costa Mesa and especially on theWestside near W. 19th Street is that we have too many free services provided in a small area. 

These services naturally attract people who need them, and this causes an over concentration of the homeless and other needy people from all over Orange County in that area.  

Once there, they tend to remain in the area (after all, if you're homeless, you have no home to return to, so you stay near the free food and other services).  This chases away regular families and especially those with young children and is helping keep theWestside downscale and on the verge of being a full scale skid row.

*We define a "charity boss" as someone working for the charity who is in a top executive or other position of responsibility.

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RACE RIOT CLOSES HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL

You won't learn much about what's really going on at the closed Hawaiian high school or about the nature of the race riot from the above linked news story, but be sure to read the comments following the story and you'll learn that it's more hate Whitey and kill Whitey stuff.

Whites need to contact the Congressional White Caucus to get some political support for ending all the hate crimes against Whites.

Oh right, there is no Congressional White Caucus.  That would be racist.

Of course, there is a Black Congressional Caucus, a Latino Congressional Caucus and an Asian Congressional Caucus, but, of course, these aren't racist.

Are you catching on yet?
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ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THE SCHOOL IN WEST VIRGINIA THAT DISCIPLINED A WHITE STUDENT FOR NOT STANDING FOR THE BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM

Now, the school says kids can sit during the pledge of allegiance, the U.S. national anthem and the Black national anthem if they want to do so.  In other words, the school is trying to be PC but is also putting the Black national anthem (whatever the hell that is) on a par with the pledge of allegiance and the U.S. national anthem.

But, what we really noticed in the article was this reported stupid line in a letter from a White City Councilperson to the school district: ""I'm not trying to be racist...."  When a White starts with that kind of nonsense about not being "racist," they've already lost the argument and have shown that they can be pushed to the back of the bus.
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WHAT THE...?  HAVE YOU SEEN TODAY'S EDITION OF THE CURRENT?

The Current, up until today, was a tabloid size toss away, folded into the OC REGISTER once a week that mostly had puff stories.

Today's Current, by contrast, is a full size weekly stand-alone newspaper for Costa Mesa and Newport Beach.  The Current is still folded into the REGISTER but it is twenty pages long and is chock full of ads and has hard news stories about Costa Mesa.

If you ask us, it looks as though The Current is getting serious and wants to take on the DAILY PILOT as the newspaper for Costa Mesa and Newport Beach and may be on its way to being completely independent of the REGISTER, although still owned by the REGISTER (until, maybe, it is parted out and sold for a profit).
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Former City Employee and Pensioner
Perry Valentine

KNOW NOTHINGS IN FULL BLOOM OVER AT THE DAILY PILOT

Be sure to read the comments under this goofy article HERE by Perry Valentine that we also wrote about yesterday.

In brief, Valentine whines that Wendy Leece should have been named Mayor Pro Tem, golly gosh, because that would show that the three good Councilmembers wanted to reach out to the opposition.

Then, a guy named Tim Sesler correctly comments that the unions put a whole lot of money into trying to elect people to the City Council and to defeat the charter (a fact), and he said that Valentine seems to be in support of the corrupt system of special interests and that Leece and Genis and some others in the community have probably been quiet on things such as the P.I. following Righeimer, etc. because they benefited from the union efforts.

Geoff West

Next, Geoff West chimes in and says that Sesler "slandered" Valentine and should retract his comments.  As usual, West doesn't know what he's talking about, but that doesn't stop him from writing to show how little he does know.  "Slander" is spoken defamation.  "Libel" is written defamation.  But even had West gotten his words right (well it might happen some day), Sesler didn't do either. Sesler was expressing his opinion about a matter of great public concern involving public figures Leece and Genis, and limited public figure Valentine, who has thrust himself into the controversy.

West is the guy who once used the term schizophrenic to describe a previous City Council when the correct word he should have used for what he was trying to say was schizoid.  When we told him he had used the wrong word, he got red faced and huffed that it was his opinion and that  he can have any opinion he wants. Well, yes, but you should learn the meaning of words. Say, like the difference between slander and libel and schizophrenic and schizoid.  May we suggest a good book?  The dictionary. And, you might even try to understand what these different terms mean before sticking your foot in your mouth.

Wendy Leece also pops up with a really dumb comment laced with phony outrage and once again says that she didn't take a dime of union money.  This is one of Wendy's standard lines. (No one said she did take any union money.) She also writes "No police reports have been filed linking me to anything." (Huh? Who ever said anything like that? That's a totally irrelevant comment from Leece, but  she's totally irrelevant almost all of the time anyway and can't seem to focus on what's important and what's not.)

Wendy Leece emoting.
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Ah, Wendy, you really need to learn how to read.  Sesler didn't say you took any union money.  He indicated that you benefited from the union putting all that money into helping you get elected and in defeating the charter.  And, you did benefit.