Did newbie Planning Commissioner Tim Sesler actually puff a charity in Kenya at the meeting tonight?
Geez.
Hey, Sesler, how about focusing on Costa Mesa and how about working to get the Westside fixed and stop the huggy kissy crap about charities in a foreign country. Good grief! What the hell do you think you're supposed to be doing on the Planning Commission?
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LADERA RANCH: TWO 12-YEAR-OLD BOYS ATTACKED BY MAN WITH A KNIFE
Notice in the above linked OC REGISTER story of the attack that there is no racial/ethnic description of the suspect. Wonder why?
HERE'S your answer. In this story from another, more honest source, the attacker is described as Hispanic.
Don't you wish all the media would just give full descriptions and let the chips fall where they may, instead of engaging in this brainwashing crap to fool the public into thinking that crime is an equal opportunity employer?
Wouldn't you and your kids be safer if you have full descriptions of violent criminals? And, wouldn't it be more likely that an outstanding violent criminal might be captured if citizens knew what he looks like and could then call in tips to the police?
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WAR MONGER BOLTON KEEPS PUSHING FOR AN ATTACK ON IRAN
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SPLC LISTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND CONVENT OF SINGING NUNS AS A HATE GROUP
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LOS ANGELES: BLACK MAN GETS INTO ARGUMENT WITH TWO LATINOS AND DRIVES HIS CAR INTO THEM SEVERING BOTH LEGS OF ONE MAN AND ONE LEG OF THE OTHER
Video and written report.
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Well, what does the Congressional White Caucus have to say about that? Oh, right, there is no Congressional White Caucus, because weak seed Whites in politics are too afraid to assert themselves as White.
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THE 40 LARGEST U.S. CITIES RANKED BY THEIR POPULATION THAT IS WHITE
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PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING TONIGHT
AGENDA
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THE MIASMA OF CITY HALL
The CM PRESS has seen it time and time again. People get elected to the City Council or get appointed to the two Commissions and they soon lose their way and their common sense and become caught up in the minutiae and stop leading. Bold leaders turn into clerks and secretaries.
We've heard it from politicians about the Westside.
They say: "CM PRESS, we can't improve the Westside and especially W. 19th Street because the lots are too small and there are rules in place, put in effect by previous Councils, that force the automobile traffic to be kept artificially low." Or, they say: "We can't improve the Westside, because we don't have the money to do the things in the Westside Plans and we have no money to buy up slum buildings."
The CM PRESS says BS!
It has to do with having a vision and the will to do it and it has to do with knowing what leadership means.
As elected and appointed officials, you are supposed to INITIATE. Then, it is up to staff to IMPLEMENT.
Remember Jimmy Carter? He turned himself into a clerk and secretary and worried about minor things such as setting the schedule for the tennis courts at the White House.
Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, governed with broad strokes. He initiated and let others implement.
So, in concrete terms what is the CM PRESS saying?
Just this: The Councilmembers [and to a lesser degree the Planning Commissioners] should realize that fixing the Westside is key to fixing all of Costa Mesa and they should make that their priority.
Then, they should convey this to staff.
They might, for example, say to staff: "We want to make W. 19th Street a more upscale shopping street so that it performs better for the city. And, we see that too many police resources are being used up by the Westside slum areas. Thin out those slums. You, staff, figure out how to do that and do it."
I recall an incident where a billionaire was asked how he could tell if he had good managers. His reply was something like this: "If one of my companies has been making bicycles for a hundred years and I go to my manager of that company and say, 'One year from now we are going to be making spaghetti and not bicycles and I want us to be a leader in the spaghetti business,' and I then go away to an island in the South Seas and only come back in a year, and find that my manger succeeded, that's a good manager."
It is up to the Council and the Planning Commission to set the vision and it is up to Staff to make that vision a reality.
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HEY, CITY COUNCIL, HAVE THE CMPD CRUNCH THE NUMBERS FOR YOU
We constantly hear that we need more police officers because of crime in the city.
Well, where, exactly, is the crime in the city that requires these more police officers?
Is it in Mesa Verde? Is it in Wendy Leece's gated neighborhood? Is it on the Eastside?
Which neighborhoods are contributing the most crime? And what are the characteristics of those neighborhoods that may be different from lower crime neighborhoods?
Here's our answer to the last two questions immediately above: Parts of the Westside--very small parts--the parts that are full of functionally obsolete apartment buildings, are sucking up a disproportionate amount of police resources and are busting the budget. Remove or thin out those apartment buildings and they'll stop being crime generators and safe havens for gangs and criminals and will be nicer and safer areas of the city and will save lives and money.
And, City Council, ask the CMPD for a crime map--say, with red pins for violent crimes--that clearly shows where most of the crime occurs so you don't have to waste your time wading through pages of details and bureaucratic doublespeak.
Just look at the map and the red pins and you'll see the pattern. Then, it's up to you to INITIATE and to tell staff to IMPLEMENT realistic and meaningful plans to make those areas crime free. And, City Council, don't accept kumbaya crap about planting flowers in front of the slums or about how group hugs will change things. Demand real solutions, not huggy kissy crap.
Stop wasting time, City Council, with goody two shoe feel good solutions that are not real solutions at all.
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