CM PRESS # 748

LOCAL COPS HIDE RACIAL MOTIVE OF BLACKS ATTACKING WHITE FAMILY
So, the mayor is going around the local cops and is calling in the FBI.

We reported on some local cops in Costa Mesa doing the same thing as these cops in Ohio.

Let a white kid look askance at a non-white and the liberal cops scream "hate-crime," and hold press conferences, while the usual lefties hold candle-light vigils, but let a white family with little kids get physically attacked by non-whites who are using anti-white hate speech and the liberal cops don't see any hate crime problems.

In fact, there may be a link between a local hate-blogger and some of these liberal cops.

The CM PRESS looked into a hate crime attack on a white kid in Costa Mesa in which the attackers used racial epithets. The white kid told the cops about the racial epithets but, just as in the case in Ohio linked to above, the Costa Mesa cops left out that information from their report.
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CM PRESS # 747

ETHNONATIONALISM
Pat Buchanan has a few thoughts on the subject.
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CORNTOWN

Once upon a time, there was a nice little community called Costa Me...ah... Corntown.

Corn grew like crazy all over the place in Corntown, and as a result of the revenues from taxes on the corn, the Corntown municipal government had more corn than it knew what to do with.

Now, as you probably know, governments expand to use all the corn they can take in. They can't just let piles of corn sit around.

So, to use up all the corn coming in, Corntown gave big raises and lots of benefits to City employees, resurfaced roads more than necessary and provided all sorts of freebies to residents which included free baby sitting services, free sports events, free concerts, and free this and free that.

There was so much corn coming in that the municipal government of Corntown had to scramble to find new things to spend it on. And, that meant thinking up even more freebies for residents; which the municipal government called "services."

As you might expect,word spread about the freebies in Corntown.

Soon, people who weren't even citizens flocked to Corntown for the freebies. And, many of these people would look for day jobs in which they were paid in corn under the table. Because there was no paper trail showing the actual amount of corn they were taking in each month, they qualified for many more freebies.

Then, one day, the corn started dying, and the City Council of Corntown had to start cutting out some of the freebies.

The problem was, by this time, all the people of Corntown, including those who weren't even in the country legally, believed that they had some God given right to all the freebies they had been receiving just because they lived in Corntown.

And, all the freeloaders started whining and crying and calling the City Council members names because the Council members had to cut out some non-necessary freebies in order to not spend more corn than Corntown had.

"You rotten, lousy kid-hating Council members, how dare you not give us free concerts? We have a right to them," they yelled. "And, how dare you stop giving us free baby sitting services? You're cutting the heart out of Corntown! If you don't have enough corn to give us all these free services, you better go find a way to raise more corn. You owe us! How are we supposed to take care of our children, if you won't do it for us? How are we supposed to entertain ourselves if you don't supply entertainment?"

Fortunately, the majority of the members of the City Council understood that you can't spend corn you don't have, and that government is not a Nanny that should be doing everything for people.

In time, many of the freeloaders moved away from Corntown to other communities where they could still get all the freebies.

Then, wonder of wonders, the good decent citizens of Corntown started seeing the violent crime rate drop, the schools get better, and the quality of life improve.

"Why, how can this be?" they asked. "We have less corn than before, yet things are getting better in Corntown."

"This is truly an amazing turn of events. Can it be that we didn't really need the local government to give us all those freebies after all? And, is it possible that instead of helping us, the freebies had a corrosive effect on us and Corntown, and caused us to rely on government for everything instead of relying on ourselves?"

"You know," said one Corntownian, "there's more than a kernel of truth in all this. Maybe even a bushel of truth. It makes sense for people to take care of themselves and their families without the government doing it for them. Self-reliance will actually make Corntown a nicer place."

"Remember" said another Corntownian,"what President John F. Corneddy said: 'Ask not what your City government can do for you Corntownians, ask what you can do for yourself."

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WHEN YOU BEGIN THINKING FRUGALLY, SAVINGS ADD UP
City of Orange to save $50,000 by switching to lower octane gasoline.
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CM PRESS # 746

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CM PRESS # 745

LIGA AZTECA BASKETBALL

In case you missed it, Liga Azteca Basketball ( or in English, Aztec Basketball Leagues) 2422 S. Shelton Street, Santa Ana, Ca. 92707 is the outfit that the Parks and Recreation Commission decided to rent the City of Costa Mesa's only indoor basketball court to on Sundays, after the City kicks out the Costa Mesa residents who presently use the court.

The CM PRESS previously brought up the issue of possible extra wear and tear on the facility because of the intense use proposed by Liga Azteca Basketball.

Our concern then and now is that Costa Mesa taxpayers may get stuck with wear and tear bills, years after Liga Azteca Basketball has left the scene. When we brought this up, our concerns were dismissed out of hand by the geniuses on the Parks and Recreation Commission.

So, what are some of the numbers that may indicate the level of wear and tear on the court, the restrooms, public areas, and the parking lot and other areas?

According to the owner of Azteca (it's a for profit outfit), they plan to use the court for 8 hours and to run 10 games with 20 teams during those 8 hours.

As you probably know, a basketball team may have as many as 15 players (ABA), and at any one time there are 5 players from each team on the court along with 3 officials.

If Azteca follows official ABA standards, they'll also have an official timer and an official scorer. Then, there are coaches and others involved with each team (maybe 5 people?).

Will food be sold to audience members? We don't know. But, it's likely. So are we looking at roach coaches in the parking lot or something else? What about family members who may not want to watch the games, will they be using other parts of the facility?

Azteca told the PRC that about 200 people show up to watch the games.

So, if we use a little Kentucky windage and make a rough estimate, we can say there may be approximately 500 people involved in some way with Azteca at the Downtown Civic Center on Sundays.

Of course, they may not all be there at the same time, as people will be coming and going, but no matter how you slice it, we could have a large crowd there on Sundays.

Also, even though many people will come in the same cars, we may still have 200 cars (?) in the parking lot on Sundays and most of those cars will arrive from Santa Ana and find themselves in and adding to the traffic nightmare near Triangle Square.

Remember, don't use the above figures as gospel--they're just our very rough estimate based on what little we have been able to learn about this.

Naturally, the Parks and Recreation Commissioners didn't ask questions that would have given us more accurate figures.

Maybe the City Council should get rid of the PRC and use the almost $ 5,000 that this commission costs us to fund concerts in the park.
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IF THERE'S NO MONEY, THERE'S NO MONEY!
(Sometimes, adults just have to say "no" to kids)

The economy stinks. Your income is way off from what it usually is. You don't know how you're going to pay the bills.

You come home from your second job and your wife nags you to spend more money on sports and similar things for the kids. You're worried about putting food on the table.

She tells you that the kids are going to turn into violent street criminals and terrorize the city if you don't spend money on sports and concerts and similar items. And, she says you also have to pay for these things for the neighbors' kids so they won't terrorize people.

You tell her that there's only a hundred bucks left in the bank account and you don't see much money coming down the pike and that you think it would be prudent to try to save that hundred bucks for food and other necessities and maybe some unexpected emergencies.

She whines and cries and shows you pictures of kids and tells you that you're ignorant and mean spirited and that it takes a village to raise a kid, and how kids are our future, and blah, blah, blah,blah....

Then, all her friends from the Bleeding Heart Social Club and Left Wing Kook Society also start calling you names. They tell you to go out and find a third and fourth job to raise more money."It's for the kids, you lousy, heartless bum. You just have to bring in more money."

That, dear friends, is a dramatization based on true events, as we say in Hollywood. And, it describes pretty much what happened at the City Council meeting last night.

The adults on the City Council--Mayor Mansoor, and Councilmembers Bever and Monahan-- withstood withering fire from a crowd of nags that looked to us to be Foley supporters.

Despite all the heat they were taking last night, and earlier from the usual kooks who drool their numbnut opinions on the pages of the almost daily Daily Pilot, the trio showed backbone and did the right thing by cutting out programs that would be nice to have, but which are not necessary.

Sometimes, adults just have to say "no" to children. Children (and even adults with child like brains) just want ice cream and cookies all day and all night.

Monahan was particularly good as he pointed out more than once that the City only has about $1.5 million in unrestricted reserves.

Folks, $1.5 million may sound like a lot to many of us, but it's about like you or I having $100 in the bank. It's nothing compared to the on-going expenses of this city.

The know-nothings in the audience didn't get it. There was a parade of know-nothings going to the podium where they emoted. Many just repeated the same stupid things as they stood under a large slide show of smiling children that we guess was put together at the request of Foley.

We wonder if Leece will take pause as to the direction in which she seems to be heading after she got praise from some of the know-nothing kooks who want the Westside to remain a ghetto.

If the kooks like Leece's direction, then she ought to know that she's going the wrong way.

We get ambushed by a couple of libs

As the CM PRESS was leaving the meeting, a couple of libs stopped us and sneered some typical crap about how kids would become criminals now.

We asked how they knew that, and one of them replied (we kid you not) that when she was four years old, there was a mean kid in her neighborhood, but he was turned around by getting involved in some programs that are similar to those that were cut from the budget.

We asked her to explain how it is, if the lefty social programs work so well in Costa Mesa, that our violent crime rate is up thirty-six percent over last year yet some of the programs have been in place for twenty or thirty years.

She replied that she "doesn't have all the answers." Right. In fact, she has few of the answers. Like most libs, she's simply working on emotion.

Emotion won't pay the bills and it won't correct the systemic problems we have in Costa Mesa.

We also noted at the meeting last night there was frequent use of the euphemism "dense areas" to describe the slums that successive city councils have kept in this city. The lefties kept saying that the kids in the dense areas need the mobile recreation van and similar things.

No they don't. What they need is for the City to remove the slums. Start thinning them out. No slums = no slum problems.

One lib told us that the City doesn't have the money to thin out the slums as we've suggested for years.

Well, maybe it doesn't right now. But it did in the past and will in the future.

You see, the City doesn't have to pay all cash to buy a slum building. It can use available cash for down payments and make monthly payments, just as you or I do when we buy property.

Then, the City can raze the buildings and put in pocket parks instead of funding a mobile recreation vehicle.

Oh, and by the way, that mobile recreation vehicle seems to be parked on Shalimar (one of those, er, "dense areas") much of the time. And, its exact location on the street is often right across from the pocket park that was created after a previous city council bought and tore down a slum building. So, if there's a park, why do they need the recreation van?

We suggested the City could save some money by getting rid of the useless Parks and Recreation Commission.

PS: In case you're one of Foley's supporters, and thus not too bright, the above story is called a m e t a p h o r. You see, the husband who comes home to be nagged represents Mansoor, Bever and Monahan. Home is City Hall. The nags are...well...you can probably figure it out for yourself from this point.
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COUNCIL PUTS OFF THE DAY WORKER ISSUE UNTIL A MEETING LATER NEXT MONTH
Maybe they read CM PRESS # 744, in which we pointed out that there may be a First Amendment problem with the proposed ordinance because of the missing job center element.
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SHOPPING CART ORDINANCE PASSES--5-0 vote
Once it goes into effect (in a little more than a month) stores with 15 or more carts will have to find a way to keep them from being removed from the property.
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CM PRESS # 744

IS COSTA MESA CRUISIN' FOR A BRUSIN' OVER DAY WORKERS?
At tonight's City Council meeting, the Council will consider adopting an ordinance relating to day workers that is modeled on a similar ordinance in the City of Orange. (LINK)

Unless we missed something, there's one possible problem with this, and we're not sure how this passed legal muster at City Hall.

You see, in addition to its ordinance, Orange has what is euphemistically called a Resource Center. (LINK) This is a job center, plain and simple. Costa Mesa does not have such a center.

So?

Legally, a city can't just tell people they can't look for work on the streets unless there is a reasonable alternative where people can find work.

Again, unless we missed something in our quick read of Costa Mesa's proposed ordinance and related matters, we think the City might be (inadvertently?) setting itself up for a First Amendment legal challenge. Or, is there a plan to open a new job center that we aren't aware of?
If it's the latter, where is it going to be?

Say, how about putting it over near a couple of crackpots who live on the Eastside, or maybe near some other crackpots who live in Mesa Verde or even, as we've suggested before, down near the border with Newport Beach on East 17th Street.

Actually, our guess is that if a new job center is opened, it will probably be on Harbor Blvd. north of the 405, near the border with Santa Ana.

Hopefully, the Westside will be off limits for a new job center, if one is in the offing.
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WILL THE GREAT WHITE MOTHERS AND GREAT WHITE FATHERS BE AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT FULL OF THE USUAL TEARY EYED CLICHES?

As we reported in CM PRESS # 743, Councilmembers Katrina Foley and Wendy Leece (Poor Wendy, what's happened to her?) are asking the Council to put some cancelled squishy Nanny State programs back into the budget.

You see, it's for the children. The children can't have good futures unless Nanny State local government gives them free food, free music and a lousy recreation van on their very street.

What a bunch of crap. "Oh, you're so mean, the children are our future. If we don't rob taxpayers to give our children things to do, they'll all join gangs and terrorize the city."

Baloney. The reality is that many of these programs are not for "our" children, but are for the children of illegal aliens who shouldn't even be in Costa Mesa at all. Some of these programs are just part of the usual Costa Mesa lefty illegal alien Welcome Wagon crap that has made our city more like Santa Ana than Newport Beach.

The taxpayers of Costa Mesa shouldn't be in the babysitting business. That's the job and the responsibility of parents.

"Oh, but the parents aren't at home. They're busy working, so we as a City need to take care of 'our children.'"

Nonsense. And, to repeat, what's really going on is that many of "our children" are really the children of illegal aliens who have found a soft touch in Costa Mesa and who get free food, free clothes, help with paying the rent, and free baby sitting services provided by the beleaguered tax payers of Costa Mesa.

Elected officials need to clearly indicate that the city government of Costa Mesa is not anyone's mother or father. If some people can't afford to live here, then they should move to where they can afford to live. Don't do us any favors by staying here. Rents and homes are a lot less expensive in Santa Ana, and that city is even within walking distance. It's also known to be very friendly to illegal aliens.

And, anyone who moves to Santa Ana can still use the Downtown Gym in Costa Mesa since the Parks and Recreation Commission booted Costa Mesans out of the place in order to rent it to people from Santa Ana.

Look, this country was built on self-reliance and personal responsibility. Most citizens neither expect nor want government to be their nanny.

Instead of driving our city to Third World levels so your missionary work can be done from your luxury cars and so you can be home in bed before it gets dark in the screwed up neighborhoods that you are helping keep that way, why don't you Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers--you cat ladies, sans cats--you Nanny Staters--just go to to the Third World and live out your Mother Teresa fantasies without harming Costa Mesa? Send us some postcards.

Dear readers, when you see the Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers talking about compassion and all the rest, remember that some of them are the modern equivalents of the Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers who "helped" the American Indians (by just about destroying them as a distinct people) and some are also the present day equivalents of the Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers who "helped" the Aborigines in Australia (by stealing their kids and trying to force them into a white mold).

Is it any wonder that so many American Indians ended up having emotional problems? They were given constant subtle (and some not so subtle) cues that their people, their culture, their ways, their religion were all worth nothing and that they had to give them all up and act like dependent little children (even if they were adults) so the nice, compassionate Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers--who always knew what was right--would take care of them and show them how to be nice little red skin white people.

And, if you say that this isn't the way it is today. I'll tell you that you're wrong. It is the same seemingly well intentioned type of nanny thinking that is harming people by keeping them dependent on the nanny government and the Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers.

Does this mean that we shouldn't help people who have fallen through the cracks? Of course not.

But, there is a balance that must be struck. We can go too far to helping people with things that they don't really need or which they can supply themselves--which is what is happening in Costa Mesa--or we can go too far in the other direction and be heartless and selfish and not help people at all. Again, a proper balance must be struck. Costa Mesa is tilting too far to the left side of that balance beam.

Yes, if you're thinking fish and fish hooks, dear reader, you probably have it right.

Costa Mesa is giving out fish, instead of fish hooks, and when the fish are gone, the hungry are back expecting more because now they feel entitled to the freebies, and the Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers tell us how now they're helping so many more people than before that, why, now they need even more freebies to hand out.

It's like feeding a lone pigeon in the park. He doesn't remain a lone pigeon for long. In very short order, you'll be covered with pigeons. And, you'll never be able to keep up with the food demand of the ever increasing numbers of pigeons.

Meanwhile, it is the good decent citizens of Costa Mesa who pay for the freebies with their taxes and who also pay by having lower than they should be home values, a fleeing middle class, schools that are at Third World levels and an astronomical crime rate.

We have to stop the downward spiral of Costa Mesa. And, one thing to do to stop it is to get the local government out of the Nanny State business and have it provide the essential services that it should provide, and no more than those services.

Oh, and if you think all the compassion and non-profits in Costa Mesa are doing a good job, then please explain to us why our crime rate is so high, why the gangs are growing, why the schools have such low student scores and why our city is so much different from our sister city--Newport Beach.

Santa Ana is not a good model for Costa Mesa. Newport Beach is.
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[Photo above is of some American Indian boys who were "helped" by some earlier Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers. First, they had to have their hair cut into white styles, then they had to wear uncomfortable white clothes, then they had to give up their own religion in favor of white religion, then they had to give up all of their Indian culture. Do they look happy to you?]

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CM PRESS # 743

FOLEY AND LEECE WANT NANNY STATE ITEMS TO CONTINUE
(Wendy, say it isn't so!)

They want the three other Councilmembers to get all squishy and sing kumbaya with them at tomorrow's City Council meeting and reinstate some liberal programs. LINK

We expect this type of nonsense from Foley, but we're disappointed in Leece.

It also seems that some local lefty crackpots who want the Westside to continue being illegal alien central are now praising Leece for what they apparently believe is a leftward turn by Leece.

This hasn't gone unnoticed among Leece's supporters who have contacted us.

Look folks, we have to get our local government doing what it should be doing and stop playing nursemaid to illegal aliens. And, that's what is disguised in many of these programs that Foley and Leece want reinstated.

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SHOPPING CART ORDINANCE ALSO ON AGENDA TOMORROW NIGHT

The CM PRESS has been pushing for this for years. Hopefully, it'll pass. LINK

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COUNCIL WANTS TO REIN IN STREET SOLICITATIONS

This Council agenda item tomorrow night is patterned after a similar ordinance in Orange where it is reportedly working for the benefit of citizens. Hopefully, it'll also work in Costa Mesa.

LINK

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GOLDEN STATE BECOMES IOU STATE
Weak, dimwitted politicians who spend like drunken sailors have brought us to this point.
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CM PRESS # 742

IS IT TIME FOR GALITSKI TO LEAVE THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION?

After making what some consider to be negative comments about his fellow Parks and Recreation Commissioners and writing some completely false things about us, PRC Commissioner Galitski wrote the following in the Daily Pilot:

galitski wrote (in theDaily Pilot) on Jul 2, 2009 1:44 PM:

" I never trashed my fellow commissioners, the press will say what they want... you should know that's what sells papers. Nor will I hide behind annonymous names to make statements. I am a citizen just like you, I base all of my decisions on public comment, I respect those who come and speak before us- even Millard. Share your opinions and thoughts at our next commission meeting. We would love to hear from you and that is how things get changed. I am not on any special agenda... I am just trying to do the right thing for the city. " (emphasis added)

Notice how Galitski worked our name into his comment, and in a snide and childish fashion, ("even Millard") even though there was no reason to put it there. Ha, ha, funny, huh? The guy's a real card.

Here's the link to the full Pilot article.

Just to be sure you're clear about this, Galitski is on the Parks and Recreation Commission that recently voted to stop Costa Mesa residents from using the gym in the Downtown Community Center on Sundays so Santa Ana based Liga Azteca Basketball could use the facilities owned by the citizens of Costa Mesa.

Citizens of Costa Mesa (not Santa Ana) pay Galitski and the other commissioners $ 100 each per meeting to use proper judgment to benefit Costa Mesa citizens, not Santa Ana residents. In other words, they work for the citizens of Costa Mesa, not for the, ah, residents, of Santa Ana.

Back before Galitski was appointed to this commission, we suggested to some improvement minded people that he might be worth a try on the commission. Why? Not because of anything substantive, but because he was associated with some people who we felt were a positive influence on our city, and one of his associates had helped out Improvers several years ago, and at that time we had no negative thoughts about him.

Don't get us wrong, we don't claim that Galitski got the seat because of our suggestion. The truth is that we don't know if anyone even considered our suggestion. But, we did want to mention that we were more than passingly aware of Galitski before he got his appointment, and we did want to be clear that we had no real impression of where Galitski stood on issues. However, from what little we did know, we thought he might be on the right track.

These days, we have a much clearer picture of Galitski, as he's now tipped his hand more than once and in doing so has fulfilled Socrates' truism: "Speak that I may see you."

Now, a few more words on this influence business, just to be completely clear. The CM PRESS doesn't have, nor do we claim that we have, an iota of influence different than any other activists who pay attention to local matters and who frequently give their opinions about our city in public. 'Nuff said?

Here's a major reason why these commissions are so important--the two Farm Teams

The Parks and Recreation Commission and the Planning Commission often serve as informal farm teams for the City Council.

Only the most naive or most disinterested might think that people are appointed to these commissions because they're good planners or know which trees are to be pulled or left in the ground or solely because they supported various Council candidates.

Commissioners are potential City Council candidates in waiting. Even the commissioners may not be aware of this, but savvy Councilmembers and ordinary activists in the city are watching how they do their jobs, how they vote, how they handle themselves, and what kind of political leanings they have.

Although very few people ever attend Planning Commission meetings and even fewer attend Parks and Recreation Commission meetings, the CM PRESS tries to attend as many of these meetings as possible.

One major reason we do so is to see what the commissioners are made of. We want to know who might be good for the improvement of Costa Mesa if they are encouraged to run for, and if they win, a seat on the City Council.

Generally, you can't get a good sense of this just from watching the meetings on TV. You have to kick the tires, as we say at the used car lot. Even when we don't say anything at public comments or about specific issues,we're usually there and we're watching, listening and weighing.

So, what about Galitski?

You may have a different opinion, but we've seen all we need to see of Galitski. We have his number.

He's shown who he is with his own words in the Daily Pilot.

If he has any aspirations for the City Council (and we don't know that he does), we'll be sure to give our further opinions here in the CM PRESS.

But, maybe we have it wrong. What do you think?

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SARAH PALIN MAY SUE BLOGGER
Alaska, like California, recognizes libel per se as a cause of action in addition to libel per quod.

Free speech has its limits. Damaging another with a false statement of fact, and then claiming that you were just giving an opinion won't usually shield a defamer from liability.

Stay tuned.
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CM PRESS # 741

ITALIANS PASS TOUGHEST IMMIGRATION LAW IN EUROPE
Viva Italia!

Here are some highlights of the new Italian law:

1) Those harboring illegal aliens in their homes face up to three years in prison.
2) Immigrant parents must prove legal status to register a birth.
3) Illegal immigrants must be deported to detention centers in Libya before they can apply for asylum.
4) Illegal aliens will face huge fines and will spend six months in detention centers before repatriation.
5) Outlaws using child panhandlers.
6) Sanctions unarmed citizen patrols to aid local police.
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD SHOWING THE BRITS SOME FIREWORKS (1779--John Paul Jones, Captain)

Outgunned by the HMS Serapis, Jones ramed the British ship. He then had his crew and his Marines lash the Bonhomme Richard to the Serapis so the latter couldn't pull away. Then, after three hours of hand to hand combat between British and U.S. Marines and sailors, the Americans took charge of the Serapis.

This battle convinced the French to enter the war on the side of the U.S.

THE PRESENT USS BONHOMME RICHARD

(Marines from the 3rd Amphibious Assault Battalion entering the well for deployment.)


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CM PRESS # 740

HOUSTON COPS FED UP OVER SANCTUARY POLICY
Cops keep getting killed by illegal aliens under this stupid policy.
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ISRAELI HOUSING MINISTER CALLS FOR APARTHEID-LIKE SEGREGATION IN ISRAEL
Fears Israel is being taken over from within by Arabs.
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CM PRESS # 739

TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF US...

NORTH--Santa Ana--Man shot near 9th and Fairview in drive-by shooting.
SOUTH--Newport Beach--No one shot again today.

CONCLUSION SO FAR: There are almost daily shootings in Santa Ana and there are almost never any shootings in Newport Beach. Hmmmmm. What can it mean? Say, let's see if we can make Costa Mesa as much like Santa Ana as possible. Right, Galitski?
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COSTA MESA GETTING AN EVEN WORSE REPUTATION?

Here's a link to a news story in the OC Register about the latest robbery on the Westside. Take a minute to read the comments from readers. You'll see Costa Mesa being called Costa Misery and you'll see comments saying that Costa Mesa is as dangerous as Santa Ana.

SO, CITY COUNCIL...

Mr. Mansoor, Mr. Bever and Ms. Leece--Remember how Improvers got behind your campaigns because they thought you'd start fixing this city and especially the cesspool that the Westside has become?

What are you doing? Don't you realize that as long as you keep slums in the city, you'll have slum problems?

Instead of doing the heavy lifting that is necessary, you're sitting silent while the Westside (and much of the rest of the city) turns into a new Santa Ana. You even let the idiots on the Parks and Recreation Commission (who you appointed) kick Costa Mesans out of the only indoor gym they have available and give it to people from Santa Ana.

Here's the only thing that will improve the bad neighborhoods: START THINNING OUT THE SLUMS. RAZE THE BUILDINGS. TEAR THEM DOWN. REMOVE THEM. DESTROY THE HABITATS OF THE CRIMINALS AND THE GANGS.

Stop wasting money and time on sweet nothings such as concerts in the park and bike trails and rubberized asphalt and community gardens and attack the real problems we have in this city.

Start focusing on the real problems, not fluff.
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CM PRESS # 738

MARINES LAUNCH MAJOR ATTACK IN AFGHANISTAN TODAY
Four-thousand Marines on the move against the Taliban.
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SHOTS FIRED ON VOLLEYBALL COURT IN SANTA ANA
Maybe Costa Mesa can rent some volleyball courts in Costa Mesa to these punks.
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REALIZE THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO CRASH INTO THE TRAIN IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU'RE CALLED A HERO BECAUSE YOU APPLIED THE BRAKES?
Good grief!
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TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF US...

NORTH--Santa Ana--Man was stabbed on Tustin Ave. on Tuesday.
SOUTH--Newport Beach--No one was stabbed in Newport Beach again on Tuesday or any other day that we know of.
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WHAT THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION COSTS CITIZENS OF COSTA MESA
The CM PRESS recently contacted the Costa Mesa Finance Department to try to determine exactly what it costs citizens to keep the Parks and Recreation Commission.

Here's the Q &A:

Q. How much does each commissioner get paid per meeting?
A. Each commissioner receives $100 per meeting.

Q. Do the commissioners get medical benefits? Insurance?
A. The commissioners do not receive medical benefits or any other form of insurance.

Q. Do the commissioners have expense accounts or are they compensated for gas, food, lodging?
A. The commissioners do not receive expense accounts of any kind. The cost of meals previously served at the Parks and Recreation meetings to commissioners and staff in attendance was removed from the budget upon adoption.

Q. How much does it cost (average is fine) for all the staff members who work at the Parks and Recreation meetings or in preparing for the meetings? Is this overtime?
A.There are four management staff regularly in attendance. These staff members are salaried and therefore, there is no additional cost for their attendance at the Parks and Recreation Commission meetings. Two additional staff members attend. One of the two elects to take time off in lieu of overtime pay and the other receives overtime pay.

There are nine meetings per year and the approximate cost for the overtime worked by these two staff members is $155 per meeting.

Q. Are there any other expenses involved with this commission?
A. There is a total of $400 budgeted for office supplies.

Q. What is the total cost to have a Parks and Recreation Commission?
A. The total cost for the Parks and Recreation Commission is $4,900 per year.
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