Nice photos with the above article.
Nature constantly tinkers with life to find ways to overcome things that can harm it or which stand in its way.
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RUSSIA: RUSSIANS CELEBRATE SKIP WORK, HAVE SEX DAY
Russia wants to increase its population of Russians and doesn't want to have to rely on non-indigenous immigrants for growth. And, Russia's push to increase births is working.
Yeah, Russia! Make more like yourselves. It's the way we survive.
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FIRST GENETIC EVIDENCE THAT HUMANS CHOOSE FRIENDS WITH SIMILAR DNA
Genes are us, and so-called free will is much overrated.
There are survival advantages in selecting friends who have similar DNA, and mentally healthy individuals do this subconsciously as they often silently reject society's current orthodoxy that diversity is wonderful.
The person you see in the mirror is the product of your unique DNA code (you might prefer the terms recipe or blueprint) and that DNA code "wants" to survive. You are the means to its ends.
Unfortunately, in writing about the DNA code in this way, some might misunderstand and believe that the DNA code is like a tiny being inside of us. That's not the case. It is one with us. It makes us, us. It is us, and we are it.
Every organism on earth that we know about (with the possible exception of some viruses which rely on RNA rather than DNA), have a DNA code that is at least unique to their particular type of organism, and in humans and other organisms that reproduce in our manner, it is, in addition, also unique to us as individuals.
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OC REGISTER--BEHIND THEIR PAYWALL: THE LAW FIRM THAT MAYOR RIGHEIMER HAS SUED IS ALSO ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT BY THE POLICE DEFENSE FUND
Alleged overbilling, etc.
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DAILY PILOT: POLICE MAKE ARREST OF MURDER SUSPECT
We also received a press release from the CMPD on this arrest, but there aren't many addtional details such as the race of the suspect and victim.
However, there is a business in Costa Mesa that reportedly employees around 40 people that is headed by a man with a name similar to that of the victim, John Gerard Kubat, 54.
If the CMPD releases a photo of the suspect, only described as a 35-year-old transient named Christopher Ernest Leovy, from Los Angeles, we'll try to publish it.
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SELECTIVE OUTRAGE FROM SOME LIBERALS OVER THE VERNAL POOLS
Be sure to read the selective outrage from the usual small handful of liberals in the Daily Pilot [HERE], over the fact that someone apparently tried to make a long used path safe for kids, and compare their lack of outrage when a fellow liberal actually wrote a column in the Daily Pilot about how he was shooting at an endangered species with a sling shot.
Here's a condensed version of our article on the crow caper that appeared in CM PRESS # 85, December 28, 2012. From our Oldies but Goodies Vault we present...
SHOOTING AT CROWS WITH A SLINGSHOT
As you will see in the above linked Daily Pilot column written by Tom Egan; Egan admits to using a weapon*--a slingshot--within Costa Mesa city limits against crows who bother him.
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In his column, Egan finally says that his tree has now died, and one commenter suggests that it may have died because Egan chased away the crows that might have been eating the beetles that may have been eating Egan's tree.
Some wags might even ask if Egan violated the following Costa Mesa Municipal code section:
It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, other than a peace officer acting in his official line of duty, to shoot, fire or discharge, or for any person to cause or permit to be shot, fired or discharged within the corporate limits of the city, any rifle, shotgun, pistol, revolver or other firearm, or any air gun, air pistol or air rifle, or any other weapon which emits a projectile as a result of pressure exerted at the breech, except when it may be necessary to do so to protect life or property, or to destroy or kill any predatory or dangerous animal, unless said person shall have first obtained permission in writing to do so from the chief of police
Egan may now try to argue that he was protecting his property from the crows, but in his column he says he was shooting at them because they were making noise. That's not the same thing as protecting one's property. Furthermore, American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) are protected by law, as you will read below.
Was this federal law violated?
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA), codified at 16 U.S.C. §§ 703–712 (although §709 is omitted), is a United States federal law, at first enacted in 1916 in order to implement the convention for the protection of migratory birds between the United States and Great Britain (acting on behalf of Canada[1]). The statute makes it unlawful to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill or sell birds listed therein ("migratory birds"). The statute does not discriminate between live or dead birds and also grants full protection to any bird parts including feathers, eggs and nests. Over 800 species are currently on the list. [Including American crows--Corvus brachyrhynchos]
Egan also suggests that the crows weren't hurt by his shooting at them with his slingshot, because he says the projectiles just bounced right off the crows. So, he admits that he hit them with the projectiles. He also admits that the crows fled after being shot. That would indicate that the crows didn't think being shot at was something to be ignored. And, of course, it wasn't Egan who was being shot at. Perhaps if someone was shooting at Egan with a slingshot he might have a different view of whether it's harmful or not.
Also, Egan admits that after a few shooting sessions, the crows would leave just at the sight of Egan with the slingshot in his hand. This speaks to the intelligence of the crows, and as you may know, crows are one of the most intelligent of birds, and the American crow is actually a tool user.
*Dangerous Weapon--Definition--Any object, such as a gun, knife, sword, crossbow, or slingshot, that is intrinsically capable of causing serious bodily harm to another person. The definition becomes important in cases where criminal laws attach particular consequences to crimes performed with a dangerous weapon.
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OMG, FFNP & DG IN THE DP! REWARD OFFERED FOR THOSE WHO TRIED TO KEEP HUMAN KIDS SAFE!
We imagine: Kids walking to school over a long used path trip and hurt themselves in a slight indentation in the ground called a vernal pool. The kids didn't know it was a pool because, well, there's no water there. But anyway, to head off kids falling into the pool with no water that just looks like a slight indentation in the dirt, responsible people mow the trail and put down some organic material to keep the kids from hurting themselves on what amounts to a prescriptive easement.
But, lo and behold, there's a vernal pool there that doesn't look like a pool because, again, it's just dry dirt.
And, the inhabitants of that pool, that isn't a pool right now, the fairy shrimp, aren't talking--that's because they're just tiny little eggs buried in the dry dirt right now and can remain that way for years.
So, there are no tiny voices yelling out in their poor English, almost as though they are lefties: "Hey, who ya callin' a shrimp?" And, "This dirt don't look like no pond to you, ah, because there's no water here, but sometimes there's water here and we're more important than the safety of kids, so don't do nuthin' near this here undefined dirt area with no borders that don't look nuthin' like a pond or a pool; which, if it did, might put people on constructive notice that that this here dirt is different from that identical lookin' dirt over there. Ya see, some years our pool is bigger than other years depending on the rain fall. And, you just gotta guess where our pool ends when there's no water around."
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ILLINOIS,
They lured her outside a bingo hall, threw her in the trunk of her car, and then later set the car on fire while she was still in the trunk.
Had she been reading the CM PRESS, she might have profiled the suspects and not been lured outside to her death.
PCitis can kill. Do profile. Do play the odds. Do be suspicious.
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PUTIN WRITES A NICE OP-ED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Takes issue with some dimwit conservatives who tout American "exceptionalism."
This false belief in American exceptionalism is akin to supremacist thinking in which those who believe they are above others then believe that they must be the Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers and interfere in the internal affairs of other nations.
And, Putin has it right. This is dangerous thinking. We have the U.N. to try to prevent more wars, but the U.S. refuses to play fair with the U.N. If the U.N. says something we like, then we praise it.
If the U.S. says something we don't like, we smear it and do what we want to do no matter what the U.N. says.
The U.S. should stop being the major buttinsky around the planet. It is not for us to tell other peoples how they should live or what they should believe. When other nations have civil wars, butt out America, let the people in those nations sort it out.
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DAILY PILOT ARTICLE ON SMALL LOT DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL
And, we get misunderstood by 180 degrees. We talk fast, and there was noise in the room, so this can happen.
The Pilot story has this:
"Mesa North resident Martin H. Millard said the small-lot developments should be replacing the Westside's "functionally obsolete buildings" with better ones and not just aiding the Eastside."
What we meant to convey:
We do not see this ordinance as aiding the Eastside, but harming it.
This ordinance should be used where we have functionally obsolete apartments: on the Westside, Mesa North and Mesa del Mar, and it should not be used on the Eastside to further crowd that area.
And, the ordinance should not be rolled out city wide but just in the areas mentioned above where it can be used to reverse the downward spiral caused by slum conditions. To be clear. We do not see this as a plus for the Eastside as the Pilot quote seems to indicate.
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