Saturday, March 8, 2014

CM PRESS # 521

Five potted plants or five
councilmembers?
CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE NOT POTTED PLANTS

At least three of the five aren't.

When we hear some of the haters with their little girly whining tantrums complaining about the three members of the City Council who are doing their jobs and being active to improve Costa Mesa and trying to be good stewards over this city, we hear neurotic crackpots, dopes, and some malcontents along with some easily manipulated low IQ types who don't even know why they're whining and complaining but who are just following the crowd so they can feel like insiders.

For years we've had many passive Councilmembers who did nothing but show up for meetings and collect their checks and who went along to get along.  In that environment, some employees were pretty much able to do whatever they wanted to do.  Now, we have some Councilmembers who are running the city like a business.

And, the way it works in business is that bosses who want the business to succeed, are hands on and take an interest in actually managing the enterprise.  To do that they investigate what employees are doing on the job.  They make suggestions on how to do things better.  They decide on priorities.  And, they do all the other things to guide the ship of state--that, in our case, is our city--away from the shoals and into safe waters.

Here's hoping the good Councilmembers keep it up.
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LOCAL BLOGGER WRITES STUPID COLUMN AND LEFTY DAILY PILOT PUBLISHES IT

If you have the stomach (sorry) for it, try to wade through the constipated and childish boring propaganda column of the odd character you see on your left.

And, then, if you haven't lost your lunch, read the letter he has published from "one of Costa Mesa's finest" HERE.

This blogger is so confused and so lacking in discernment that he apparently actually thinks the letter from the cop is a great slam against the good Councilmembers when actually it speaks more to a lack of professionalism (at the very  least), over emotionalism (also at the very least) and maybe a rotten to the core state within the CMPD that even our relatively new police chief can't fix.

And, when an institution is rotten to the core and can't be fixed, you sometimes need to dissolve it and start over from top to bottom.

Intelligent readers, after reading the blogger's column and the letter from the cop, may wonder why the City isn't doing more to make sure we get a professional police force with apolitical police officers who are just focused on their mission.  And, such readers may also be thinking that it's time to start talking to the Sheriff about patrolling Costa Mesa.

You should also read the Police Staffing/Recruitment report HERE.

Notice that many of the cops who have left the CMPD gave their reason for leaving as "political environment."  We don't find that answer very satisfying and it doesn't sound like such a pat answer is something that individual officers would just come up with all on their own.  [We acknowledge that the preparer of the report may have just summarized comments for brevity, but we'd like to see more specific comments from the cops if they exist.]

Notwithstanding what we just wrote in the brackets in the preceding paragraph, we suspect there are some really rotten apples in the department who are  poisoning the well with bad mouthing sound bites such as "What a bad political environment we have here." And, it appears that this may have become a meme--an easy, unthinking and unsupported something to say by a cop who is leaving. "Yeah, I'm leaving because of the, er, bad political environment. Yeah, that's it."  We do wonder if anyone bothered to dig deeper and ask these cops to explain further and exactly how it was that they formed the opinion of there being a bad political environment, and exactly how the alleged bad political environment specifically affected them or their jobs.

It just takes one rotten
apple to spoil the bushel
Honestly, put yourself in the shoes of a cop.  You may not live here in Costa Mesa (more than 75% don't live here).  You get up in the morning, and you drive to Costa Mesa.  You then do whatever it is you're assigned to do--let's say you go out on patrol.  Then at the end of your shift you drive back to your own home in some other city.  Now, where during that day did you get even a whiff of some sort of political environment that you don't like?  You just did your job as a professional.  You must have picked up the negative attitude from others in the department.  Who was that?  That's what the chief should be trying to find out.  WHO is badmouthing from inside the department and chasing off cops and causing them to write letters such as the one published by that blogger seen up above?


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GENE IDENTIFIED FOR BUTTERFLY WING MARKING MIMICRY

The surprise is that it is one gene and not a cluster of genes that does the trick. It acts as an on/off switch for other genes.  And, as is usually the case with genes, this one gene also does other things.

Genes are butterflies and genes are us.  It's all in the DNA code.
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2 comments:

  1. wow that is quite a flameout from the police officer. says he does not want to burn any bridges and then calls the councilmen the most despicable people around? and he says he calls them that because they question his pay and benefits? guy is clueless rogue cop, good riddance. does he not know elected need to question a lot of things, including compensation? happens is every job, why is he so special? because he is full of himself and thinks his job is the most important in the world, more important than doctors, nurses, teachers, roofers, inventors, clergy, on and on. bye bye, thanks for leaving.

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  2. Mr. M........I missed this yesterday while working the Pilot commentaries dealing with The Snitch West...He claims I have mental problems and he is consulting his attorney to see if he can shut me up.......This guy is one sick pup....You hit it 100% on the head...My comments in the Pilot are hard and to the point......I am a fan of the OCSD taking over ....

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