CM PRESS # 286

SOME QUICK ITEMS OF INTEREST

HERE'S THE LINK TO THE CMPD PRESS RELEASE ABOUT THE MURDER ON W. 19TH STREET.
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There is no press release on the carjacking in Katrina Foley's Mesa del Mar neighborhood.
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There is also no press release about the attempted kidnapping of a young girl in Foley's Mesa del Mar neighborhood.
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There is also no press release about the other attempted kidnapping of an older girl on the Westside.
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There was gang graffiti on the fence along the Shalimar slum facing Placentia at about 10 am this morning.
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Day workers were seen this morning along the sidewalk just south of the old job center trying to get work by waving and yelling at passing trucks. If Costa Mesa's City Council would enact a proper series of municipal codes similar to those in Orange, this would be stopped.
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Readers of the CM PRESS are not happy with the crime in CM that mostly seems to have a connection to illegal aliens and they're wondering why the City Council isn't having the CMPD take a more proactive approach such as gang injunctions, etc.
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About that murder on W. 19th Street where a 17 year old Hispanic was stabbed to death allegedly by a 23 year old Hispanic--

We wonder if either the perp or the victim are illegal aliens and if they have/had been using some of the charities on the Westside that keep taking our money and telling us that they are stopping gang activity.
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Although we were told by City Hall and the CMPD that monthly ICE reports would be posted on the City's Web site, we still haven't seen them posted.

Rumors are circulating that some cops--including some brass--don't want to arrest illegal aliens and are overlooking many crimes. The ICE reports would help dispel these rumors if they are false.
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CM PRESS # 285

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G N-E-W-S (Sunday, 1/27/08, 1:38 p.m.)

CM PRESS,

I heard on a KFI news report that a man was stabbed last night in a parking lot at 19th and Placentia (Vista Center?), and died today.

[The CM PRESS has not verified the above breaking news story, but we have no reason to doubt it]

UPDATE--Sunday, 1/27/08, 6:58 p.m.--According to the DP, a 17 year old boy was stabbed to death in the parking lot of the El Metate market at 19th and Placentia. A suspect is in custody. LINK
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GUNPOINT CARJACKING IN KATRINA FOLEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD!

The Daily Pilot (LINK) is reporting today that a man was carjacked at gunpoint in the 1000 block of Mission Drive in Mesa del Mar on Friday. MAP

This is in the Mission-Mendoza slum that the CM PRESS has called on the city to tear down.

Mission Drive also backs up to the flood control channel where Foley and her nitwit pals wanted to spend millions of dollars of your money to build a bike trail for our kids.

As you may recall, the CM PRESS argued against putting in a bike trail in this illegal alien and crime infested area because we felt it would put a lot of law abiding people at risk. The improver majority on the Council finally turned Foley down on this screwball scheme.

This is also the slum where a student from OCC was murdered and where a man was shot to death in the now closed down eyesore shopping center and near where another man was shot last year in a drive by shooting.

It's also the slum where Foley, after much fanfare in the Daily Pilot, had a group hug and flower planting event a couple of months ago.

Funny, the flowers didn't stop this carjacking and they're not stopping the gangs and the crime.

When you look at the above map, also look at the bottom where you'll see Presidio Square. This is the street right behind Davis Elementary School where two Latinos tried to kidnap a young girl last month.

Does Presidio Square ring a bell? That's the street where the CM PRESS tried to get the cops to stop drivers from sitting with running cars at a red curb and endangering kids going to and from school. What did a high ranking cop tell us? The cops weren't going to ticket drivers who violated this law. Our guess at the time was that this cop didn't want his officers ticketing suspected illegal aliens--which was most of those who were endangering kids.

When it comes time to vote this year, remember that Foley is trying to stop Costa Mesa from being improved and that her very own neighborhood is full of crime.

What has Foley been doing about crime? Well, she met with a group of suspected illegal aliens and told them she's their pal. Then, she went skiing instead of attending a city council meeting. Don't worry though, Foley did do something for people in need. Why, she collected canned food for people in South County and got her name in the Daily Pilot again.
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CM PRESS # 284

DAILY PILOT IN A SNIT

The Daily Pilot is in a snit after a political group distributed fliers that the Pilot says misrepresents the paper's position on a location for a new Newport Beach city hall.

Before whining, Pilot, how about cleaning your own house?

The Pilot once carried a story saying that U. Know Who was opposed to building homes on the Westside Bluffs. That's exactly 180 degrees opposite of Mr. Who's well known position.

The Pilot also allows a couple of local pukes to use innuendos and things taken out of context to smear private individuals in the Pilot's blogs and opinion pieces.

Here's the LINK.
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CM PRESS # 283

SANTA ANA HEIGHTS--THE NEW SURFRIDGE?
(From # 188)

See those streets on the left of the photo? There used to be more than 800 homes in that neighborhood called Surfridge.

Great location, right on the beach in tony Playa Del Rey in Los Angeles County. It's now a ghost town. Wonder why? That's Los Angeles International Airport on the right. Get it?

Meanwhile, down the coast in Orange County,the folks in Santa Ana Heights got their wish and are now part of tony Newport Beach. That's the good news for them.

The bad news is that Santa Ana Heights may go the way of Surfridge.

The problem for Surfridge was that it was under the landing and takeoff flight paths at Los Angeles International Airport--just as Santa Ana Heights is under the flight paths of John Wayne Airport.

Folks in Surfridge didn't worry much, though. Hey, they could cap flights out of LAX and do other things to keep their area safe from the airport. Why, they could even stop LAX from expanding by writing letters to the newspapers.

In truth, they were just whistling past the graveyard.

The inevitability of bigger airplanes and more air traffic caught up with them. It's a shame, too, because, given their ocean close location, even tear down shacks in that area (sans an airport) would now probably sell for more than a million dollars each.

The people in Surfridge--more than 2,000 of them--didn't have much of a chance of stopping the expansion of LAX, even though they apparently didn't know it or wouldn't accept that fact.

That's because there was no alternative location available to replace LAX.

The folks in Santa Ana Heights do have a chance of stopping the expansion of JWA. That's because there is an alternative location available to replace it--a relatively small part of massive Camp Pendleton.

Unfortunately, about the only people talking about the possibility of building an LAX size airport on a tiny portion of Camp Pendleton are those of us in the CM PRESS skyscraper.

We've watched some of the others involved in trying to keep JWA from expanding. To us, some of them look like a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off. Their only ideas seem to be to keep trying to cap flights out of JWA or to use some sort of fast trains to Ontario, or to a former airforce base in San Bernardino that they think could be turned into an international airport.

We think those choices are bad ones and that some are just wasting time and effort that could be put into a focused campaign to build an airport on Camp Pendleton that will serve the area's needs for the next hundred years and which will head off the necessity of JWA growing.

Don't buy our arguments above? Well, here's our axioms. Prove us wrong:

1. Demand for air travel will continue to grow.

2. Planes will continue to get larger.

3. To accommodate both the demand for air travel and for larger planes, airports will have to grow.

4. If no alternative airport is found to take the pressure off JWA, it will continue to grow.

5. Santa Ana Heights is to JWA as Surfridge was to LAX.

So, what's to be done? Residents of Santa Ana Heights (or whatever they now call their area) need to get better organized and start contacting politicians at all levels of government to get them on their side, and they need to present them with an alternative to JWA. And, they need to speak with one voice about one alternative. They also have to make their case to others in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa who are not as directly affected by JWA.

Again, our belief is that the most viable alternative to JWA would be a new airport on a tiny part of Camp Pendleton. That's the location we would push if we lived in Santa Ana Heights.

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CM PRESS # 282

“When our kids left Adams they left with an education in diversity and tolerance.” LINK

So writes a poster on the Daily Pilot blog in defense of Adams Elementary School and its low student test scores.

Reading, writing and arithmetic apparently don't matter.

Students should learn diversity and tolerance. That's what's important.

In a few years, when you fly out of John Wayne International Airport, which will have grown to the size of Los Angeles International Airport, will you have a pilot whose schooling was in diversity and tolerance and who went through a system that believes test scores (even on pilot exams), should take a back seat to diversity and tolerance?

WE TUNE IN TO A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE TOWER AND A PILOT:

Tower: Flight 92, you're cleared for takeoff on runway...

Pilot: Tower, this is Flight 92. There was no smile in your voice and you didn't say 'please.' Also,we're not ready to take off yet. We're having a group hug with the stakeholders on the plane to celebrate our diversity and then we're going to try to reach consensus about when we're going to take off. We don't need your intolerant attitude.

Right now, we're working through our differences in a loving way. Some of the stakeholders want kosher food, others want halal. We also have some vegans who want assurances that no vegetables were touched with utensils that touched meat. Others are upset that there is liquor on the plane. Some don't want us to take off during their prayers. Some want separate seating areas for men and women. Some want to have gay only restrooms. Others want separate restrooms for transsexuals.

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DAILY PILOT NOW REQUIRES REGISTRATION TO POST ON ITS BLOG

The Daily Pilot has suddenly switched to a registration system for its blog.

If you want to post comments about what you see in the paper, you'll have to give the DP your name, address, email address and even your age. DNA samples come next.

If the CM PRESS is right, we'll now see traffic to the DP site drop and comments will mostly follow the Return to Reason line.

One local dimwit will also soon find fewer people reading his low I.Q. rants against improving Costa Mesa.

If traffic does in fact drop, advertisers may reconsider their ad buys. If ad revenue drops, Sam Zell may take notice. You know what happens next. Zell is a quick stepper.

The Daily Pilot may soon hear the roar of Zell's Harley and see him riding up with the rest of the Hells Managers gang--a rough and tumble, take no prisoners bunch if I ever saw one. Oh no, he may have the Teutuls with him!
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CM PRESS # 281

DAY WORKERS MOBBING THE 7-11 CENTER AT BAKER AND BRISTOL (stock photo)

The CM PRESSMOBILE passed the corner of Baker and Bristol at about 10 am this morning and we saw about 40 day workers standing around looking for work. In fact, the parking lot was chock full of these guys.

Many were wearing clothes normally worn by house painters, so it seems clear that they were at this center because of the Dunn-Edwards paint store that is also in the center.

The last we heard, this center is owned by a family trust of a former Newport Beach city council member.

Come on Costa Mesa City Council, get off your fat duffs and start taking action. Our present municipal codes relating to this issue are not working.

It's time to adopt more stringent rules similar to the ones recently enacted in the City of Orange.

If this center were in Orange, the owner of the center would have to apply for a CUP to run this unofficial job center in his parking lot.

This mob cheapens our neighborhood and impacts nearby shopping areas.

And, while you're cleaning up this mess, you'll be able to do the same thing for the 7-11 Center at Victoria and Placentia.

Come on Mayor Bever, you probably pass the corner of Victoria and Placentia several times a day. You must be aware of the problem.

You were elected to improve this city, not to be a life long politician and everybody's best friend.
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http://cmpress.blogspot.com/

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CM PRESS # 280

TEACHERS: DON'T WORRY ABOUT COMPARISONS

As long time readers are aware, the CM PRESS is a big believer in using statistics and figures to cut through the BS about conditions in Costa Mesa.

That's why we came up with the ring of cities concept, in which we constantly compare Costa Mesa with the five cities that surround us and which actually touch some part of our land.

Without the hard numbers and the comparisons, the status quo Pollyannas in the local establishment would carry the day--as they have for years--with their goo goo talk that tells us that all is wonderful in Costa Mesa and that we shouldn't worry our pretty little heads about anything.

The numbers often say something else. They tell the truth.

Improvers were not surprised when we had drive by shootings last year, because we had been seeing the numbers and the comparisons and we knew that it was just a matter of time for drive bys.

Many others, however, were completely shocked. They had been sticking their heads in the sand for so long that they wondered why "suddenly" we had drive by shootings.

They weren't sudden. The conditions had been building for years.

At any rate, the above is background to what follows.

The CM PRESS also believe in using similar numbers and comparisons for determining the quality of education that our kids are getting.

However, there are some individuals, including many in the school establishment, who argue that we shouldn't use comparisons based on objective test data to see if our kids are in good schools or not. Some of these individuals even show contempt and scorn for the tests and the results.

We imagine the inner thoughts of one teacher or administrator: "Stupid government, making us give tests to our students that are then compared with test results of other students in other schools so the stupid government can tell if what we're doing is working or not #$@^%$#@!. Why can't the government just accept our loosey goosey talk about our students being happy?"

According to such test deniers, it is enough that the students smile a lot, and that the teachers are having tea and cookie meetings with parents.

Of course, those who argue this way are usually aware that many schools in Costa Mesa have low student scores and that some schools are in danger of being taken over by the feds. Their happy talk is really just an attempt to minimize the importance of the tests that tell the real tale.

At any rate, the CM PRESS got a chuckle when we read an article in the Daily Pilot about how the teachers and administrators rely on salary comparisons from other school districts to determine how their salaries stack up against others. LINK

So, comparisons are meaningful when the teachers and administrators think they can use them to get more money, but when it comes to comparing test results of students in different schools, many of these same teachers say we shouldn't give too much credence to the test results. Right. Sure.

Well, wouldn't it be funny if parents used the same language about salary comparisons for teachers and administrators as some teachers and administrators are using about test comparisons for students?

Maybe it would go something like this: "Teachers and administrators, you shouldn't rely on comparisons. Remember, one size doesn't fit all. Don't worry about others. Isn't it enough that you're happy teaching kids? Say, why don't we sit down and have some tea and cookies and discuss this? Don't believe those comparisons that show you may be making less money than others. It's just a communications problem. Perception is reality. If you believe you make as much money as others then that will be reality. See how easy that is? Turn that frown upside down and it's a smile. Let's have a group hug. Would you like some more tea and cookies?"
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CM PRESS # 279

LA TIMES FIRES TOP EDITOR

The newspaper industry isn't what it once was.

Even before the present real estate slump, advertising revenue was falling at many newspapers due to circulation drops related to competition from the internet.

In addition, with the real estate industry having a tough time, ad revenues from that major and usually reliable segment of our economy are falling at many newspapers.

As a result, newspapers are scrambling to make changes and stay profitable. This often means cutting staff.

The LA TIMES announced today that it had fired its top editor, James O'Shea, after O'Shea refused to cut staff.

O'Shea had been brought in to replace another editor who had previously refused to cut staff. You'd think O'Shea would have gotten a clue from that earlier firing, but maybe--we're just speculating here--he thought he was too valuable to be fired.

Both O'Shea and his predecessor are newspapermen. Our guess is that both found their identities and sense of self-worth in that word "newspaperman" and that they simply couldn't adapt to changing business circumstances. LINK

WHAT ABOUT THE DAILY PILOT?

The Daily Pilot is owned by the LA TIMES, which in turn is owned by the Tribune Company. Tribune recently went private and is now under the firm control of real estate magnate Sam Zell.

Zell and his team are calling the shots at the LA TIMES and they're the ones who fired O'Shea.

Zell is not a newspaperman and the industry does not appear to have an emotional hold on him.

Will things be changing at the Daily Pilot as a result of the new ownership of Tribune?

Time will tell.

The CM PRESS has not always been happy with the Daily Pilot. In fact, we cancelled our subscription because we didn't want to help support a newspaper that so often takes political positions in Costa Mesa that we feel help the dark status quo forces that are fighting improvement.

Notwithstanding the above, it does seem to us that the Pilot may be getting a little more even handed in the way it handles Costa Mesa matters. If so, we'd hate to see the Pilot go away.

Since Zell can probably be expected to make his decisions based on unemotional business facts, we hope that Tom Johnson's recent statements about the Pilot being on solid footing are correct and that he's not just whistling past the graveyard.

It seems to us, speaking very generally now, that newspapers such as the Pilot, that serve one or two communities in depth, may be bright lights in large media companies such as Tribune, because such newspapers are often better able to compete for local ad dollars due to their local focus.

Such local newspapers haven't had to compete as much with the internet as have their larger cousins, whose main thrust has been to deliver international and national news. Because of the internet, these larger newspapers are now delivering old news; often many hours after internet users have already read it.

Old news is no news, and no news is bad news for newspapers.

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CM PRESS # 278

MORE ON THE BEATING OF THE YOUNG GIRL IN COSTA MESA--WAS IT A RACIALLY MOTIVATED HATE CRIME? IF SO, IS IT BEING COVERED UP?

Below are a few posts that are appearing with a couple of the Daily Pilot reports about the above incident. LINK

Since the schools that these girls attend are in Newport Beach, the anti-white bigots jumped on this with their coded anti-white racist screeds and anti-white racial stereotypes.

The bigots saw "Newport Beach" and just assumed that the attackers and the victim are rich [read white] girls from Newport Beach.

Because bigots aren't very bright, they didn't bother to notice that the attack took place in Costa Mesa, not Newport Beach, and that the schools are on the border of the two cities and have a high percentage of Hispanics in them.

Here's one particularly vicious post from an anonymous poster who calls himself "CM RESIDENT" Notice the poor English of this poster:

CM RESIDENT wrote on Jan 18, 2008 6:58 PM:

" Where from are you kidding me? What does that have to do with anything or is this some rich Newporter that wants to blame Costa Mesa. You have no problem with taking the Costa Mesa United funds that were fundraised by our childrent for our HS Pool and HS football field and use it for you little league. These girls are vicious and should be held accountable. Your rich little girls [read white] are going to jail. Go have a cocktail and give your kids some money to buy drugs. "[Typical stereotype of whites in Newport Beach held by some pukes. Similar language was used by other pukes, showing how ingrained this anti-white racism has become.]

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While the authorities haven't released many details of the incident, check the post from "video viewer," below.

He claims that he saw the video and says the perps are Hispanic and the victim white. If true, will the police seek hate crime charges against the attackers? Probably not. You know how that goes.

video viewer wrote on Jan 18, 2008 7:35 PM:

" These girls that did the attack were hispanic. The girl that got beat up was white. I wonder what would have happened if the colors were reversed? Since the video isn't available anymore, this isn't mentioned to anyone. I think these girls should be put in prison until they are 25 for the brutal attack the did!! "
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And, from another DP blog about this story, we read:

ensignparent wrote on Jan 17, 2008 6:55 AM:

" white kids? the kids doing the beatings were not white... get your facts straight! "

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If posters "video viewer" and "ensignparent" are correct, why haven't we heard about possible hate crime charges against the attackers?

Here's why. Many whites (especially liberals) bend over backwards to avoid finding racial motives when non-whites attack whites but go out of their way to find such motives when the roles are reversed.

Remember the incident in Long Beach last year? A group of blacks attacked several white girls. The blacks used racial epithets during the attack and one of the white girls had to undergo reconstructive surgery because of the broken bones in her face.

Hate crime charges? Nope. The authorities couldn't find any hate crimes in the attack.

If it had been whites attacking black girls, this would have been on every news show and the attackers would face long prison terms for hate crimes. So, what's going on with this double standard and why does it exist?

One reason it exists is because of what I call noblesse oblige racism. This is a form of racism by whites--often liberal whites--who subconsciously feel superior to non-whites and who believe that non-whites shouldn't be held to the same "high" standards of whites.

Thus, non-whites can get away with murder if the victim is white, but the reverse isn't true.

Yes, dear friends, the dirty little secret about many "non-racist" whites is that they are secretly noblesse oblige racists who expect their fellow whites to be superior to non-whites.

Because of this belief, these noblesse oblige racist whites are less tolerant when their fellow whites do something wrong and especially if it relates to race.

If this sounds a little like the old British Empire mind-set that almost always caused the Brits to describe people in various lands as "childlike natives," it is. It is just updated by the libs these days.

You will often see these noblesse oblige racist whites being more polite to non-whites than to their fellow whites. Again, this is just part of the syndrome.

As I've written elsewhere, I've identified different species of these noblesse oblige racists. One type I call Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers. Another type, I call Lord Jims and Lady Jims. (see CM PRESS # 217 for a fuller explanation of these terms).

We believe the public has a right to know more details about this incident.

At a minimum, we'd like to hear answers to the following:

1. Which city do the perps live in.

2. Which city does the victim live in.

3. What are the ethnicities of the perps and the victim.

4. Where there any racial epithets used by the perps, or perhaps coded racist language about the victim being "rich," or "white"?

5. Was this just a minor spat with no racial overtones that has been blown out of proportion?

Nothing stops rumors faster than the truth. So, how about it school officials, NBPD and CMPD?
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CM PRESS # 277

TOM (Waving) JOHNSON, PUBLISHER OF THE DAILY PILOT, REFUSES TO LET FEMALE IN HIS HOUSE 'DATE' THE 'OTHER!' ASKS THAT SUITORS BE 'HER KIND.'

Agonized libs ask: "Don't we all bleed red blood?"

Move by Johnson indicates a deep seated but often repressed understanding that genes actually matter.

Johnson has now become a candidate for the reeducation camp.

Here's the LINK to Johnson's public confession about this.

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CM PRESS # 276

ORANGE OFFICIALS SAY DAY WORKER CRACKDOWN IS WORKING

The CM PRESS has urged the Costa Mesa City Council to consider changing our municipal code sections relating to day worker issues to incorporate the best parts of the new codes in Orange.

So far, no Councilmember in Costa Mesa, that we know of, has brought this suggestion forward.

Here's the link to the article in the OC REGISTER about the Orange crackdown. LINK
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REAL ESTATE IN A BIG SLUMP...EXCEPT IN COASTAL CITIES

The CM PRESS has been shouting for years to make Costa Mesa a coastal community. Some told us that they liked Costa Mesa just the way it is and that they don't want Costa Mesa to be a coastal community.

Well, here's a report from the OC REGISTER that shows that while most inland areas are in a major real estate slump, coastal cities are doing better.

Surprised? You shouldn't be. One of the oldest pieces of advice in real estate is to "Buy land near the ocean, because they're not making any more of that stuff." LINK
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