Wednesday, November 26, 2014

CM PRESS # 785

COSTA MESA...

AGENDA FOR DECEMBER 2, CITY COUNCIL MEETING

Big item is the selection of a Mayor and a Mayor Pro Tem.

Hopefully, the good Councilmembers won't get squishy and giddy and appoint anyone who opposes improvement.

When you win an election and have the majority you don't have to play footsie with those who will harm the city.
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IMPROVEMENTS CONTINUE ON THE WESTSIDE--GIVE THANKS TO THE RIGHEIMER COUNCIL

SEABRIGHT--18 new homes being built on Anaheim Street to replace 1950'S slum units.  Two of the units in the old slums were raided three years ago as a meth lab.


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HATERS SHOW HOW STUPID THEY ARE

Chief Tom Gazsi 
Photo OC Register
It didn't take long for the haters to blame Mayor Righeimer for Chief Gazsi's retirement and move to a new job up at the port in Los Angeles, even though the Chief himself stated that he was offered a job that was too good to refuse.

The CM PRESS only spoke to Chief Gazsi a few times while he was here but found him to be professional and friendly.

We especially liked the fact that the Chief actually lived here in Costa Mesa, and we hope a new Chief will also live here and have the personal qualities that seemed so evident in just our few contacts with Chief Gazsi.

But, if anyone wants to put blame on why the Chief is retiring and taking another opportunity, please put the blame on the retirement system.

And, do the math.

Chief Gazsi will retire from Costa Mesa at 90% of his final pay with a 2% increase each year for life.

His latest pensionable salary was $ 206,700 in 2013.  His new job will earn him $ 160,000 + and benefits.

So, straight out of the chute the Chief will take in around $186,300 in retirement pay from Costa Mesa each year (and then will get 2% increases each year for life).  Add that to the pay from the new job ($ 160,000) and you come up with around $346,300 per year.

So, would you stay as Chief in Costa Mesa making $ 206,700 per year or would you also decide that it is better for you and your family for you to retire and take the new job and bring in around  $346,300 to the family coffers?

A song and video HERE.*

* ASIDE: If you never saw the full movie, run out and rent it.  Bob Fosse was one of the all time best directors of musicals and he was even better as a choreographer.  Compare his choreography with large numbers of actors on stage at the same time with the work of lesser choreographers and you'll see how brilliant Fosse was. Every move, every expression, every nuance worked when Fosse was directing/choreographing. He got the best out of every actor.
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THE WORLD...



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For Thanksgiving--

BELL'S SEASONING--COPYCAT RECIPE

I doubt that any turkey is cooked in Massachusetts without Bell's Seasoning.  And although Bell's has been around since the 1800's, it's hard to find outside of New England.  Anyway, the above copycat recipe is pretty close.
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RECIPE FOR NEW ENGLAND SQUASH PIE

Growing up in Massachusetts, I never had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.  My family always had squash pie.  The above recipe from the Internet is a reasonable facsimile of what my mother used to make.  It tastes much the same as pumpkin pie but is more yellow in color.  BTW, one of the first jobs I ever had was picking squash at a local truck farm. I was ten-years-old.
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LOUISIANA VILLAGE BANS PIT BULLS AND ROTTWEILERS AS TOO DANGEROUS

Hey, wait a minute.  Don't all dogs bleed red blood?  Shouldn't each individual dog be looked at based on the content of his or her character?  Can't we say that there are no different breeds of dogs, there is just the dog breed?

No, we can't say the above. Not if we have noral intelligence and understand nature.

The reality is that breed is to dog as race is to human as variety is to rose.  Know it and you'll be safer. Each is a metaphor for the other.

Genes are us and they are dogs and they are roses.

Know the genes and you know the dog, the human or the rose.  Are there exceptions?  Of course, but one has to look at the statistics to understand the general reality for any type of organism.

If you prefer to try to figure out which pit bull or Rottweiler is dangerous and which isn't, and if that's how you want to spend your time and waste your energy, well, have at it.

But, for me, I find nothing to gain in so using my time or wasting my energy with them. There are enough examples of pit bulls and rottweilers being dangerous, for me to prefer to not bother with them.  I have better things to do with my time and with my energy that trying to sort out other organisms and since there is absolutely nothing to gain--no profit in it--for me, I don't choose to do these things.  It's simple biology and economics.
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ALL THE VARIOUS EXCUSES AND EUPHEMISMS FOR BLACK VIOLENCE (MOSTLY, IT'S WHITEY'S FAULT) FROM THE USUAL NITWITS IN THE MSM

Easy read column by Colin Flaherty @ American Thinker.
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3 comments:

  1. CM Press, this may interest you.

    http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/25/jason-riley-on-ferguson-black-on-black-crime-issue-at-hand-its-not-about-the-cops-video/

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    1. This is not directed at you, and may not have anything at all to do with your opinions on this, Mr. Black, so don't take offense.

      Too many Whites seem unwilling to accept or repeat the statistics and facts about violent Black crime when they hear these statistics and facts from Whites, but then these same Whites will often rush out and herald the same statistics and facts if they hear them from Blacks. I consider this cowardice on the part of such Whites. They are simply hiding behind Blacks out of fear of being called names.

      Whites don't need Blacks to tell them the truth or to allow them to speak the truth.

      Again, this is not aimed at you, Mr. Black, and I have no idea who you are. Thanks for the link, though.

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  2. No offense taken. I agree with your point.

    BTW, I like your new format. CM news followed by national news. I have in the past (under different name) suggested you have a separate blog for Costa Mesa news but this works fine for me.

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