CM PRESS # 462

NEWPORT ORGANIZING TO KEEP QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CITIZENS AT A HIGH LEVEL
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Newport wants every neighborhood to have Newport Beach quality.

Now, if we can just get the Costa Mesa City Council to become more active in doing the same thing here in Costa Mesa...well, that would be something.

The best place to start is the Westside.  Bring it up to Eastside standards and the whole city will improve.
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NEW POLL SHOWS OBAMA STRUGGLING FOR WHITE SUPPORT
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Maybe it's because many Whites are realizing that Obama isn't good for their interests.

The failure of the Obama administration to do anything about White voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers was just one example of the anti-White bias of the Obama administration that has been seen by White America.
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SOUTH TEL AVIV RESIDENTS MARCH TO DEMAND DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND FOREIGNERS--MOSTLY AFRICANS AND ASIANS*
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Not in favor of diversity in Israel.

*In Israel and England, "Asian" usually means people primarily from Pakistan, India and other South Asian countries and not people from China, Japan, Korea, etc.
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LOOKING FOR SOME STINK EYE TRANSPARENCY FROM WHAT BILL LOBDELL SAYS IS GOING TO BE THE MOST TRANSPARENT CITY

We sent the following message over to Bill Lobdell this morning:


It is reported in the Daily Pilot that Lt. Huggins says he can't release the report on the stink eye incident due to "legal restraints."

1. Do you have the legal citations justifying this refusal to release the report?


2. Also, if parts of the report are covered by some applicable law, can other parts of the report be viewed by the public or is it the position of the City that the public is not allowed to see any part of the report?


3. What did it cost to do this investigation?


4. What are the names of the officers who allegedly gave the stink eye, and who did they report to from their squad car on that day?


5. Did they take photographs or video of the two people putting up signs?


6. How did the Daily Pilot get a copy of Lt. Huggins' letter?


7. May I see a copy of Lt. Huggins' letter? (email copy is fine)


A couple of hours later, Lobdell sent us this message:  "I forwarded your e-mail to City Attorney Tom Duarte, who can answer your questions."


So far, the CM PRESS hasn't heard anything from Tom Duarte, but when we do, we'll let you know.
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LAW FIRM SAYS THAT COSTA MESA COPS ARE THE HIGHEST PAID IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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FEDERAL JUDGE GIVES CONTROL OF TRUST BACK TO THE  FLDS
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The FLDS (a fundamentalist Mormon church) has been persecuted in Utah, Arizona, Texas and in Canada. 

Several years ago in Utah, the state took control of land held in trust by the church for its members. The state then named a trustee who ran up huge legal bills that the church was told it had to pay.

The church said the state's action wasn't constitutional. 

Now, this federal judge has agreed with the church. 

We think the judge got it right. 

Utah is now appealing the decision, and eventually this may end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. 

If it does get there, we think the Supreme Court will also rule in favor of the Church.

If it does so, and if its ruling is broad enough (the Supreme Court usually tries to take cases that do have major impacts on basic law in this country), the religious rights of all Americans should get a boost.
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WINDY(sic) LEECE SAYS WE DON'T LIVE IN A PERFECT WORLD

Link to LA TIMES article (read way down for Leece's silly comments)

Here's a little fiction.

There is this City Council person.  Let's call her, ah, Lindy Fleece. 

Now, some kids came to Lindy and the rest of the City Council and asked if they could play with matches. 

Lindy, being a gawd trusting and compassionate charity loving person, said yes.  The rest of the Council said no and warned the little kids that this might lead to them burning down their house.

Finally, however, Lindy was able to get the matches to the kids after the kids threatened to tell their moms and dads that they couldn't get the matches. 

The kids, not being any smarter than Lindy, then called all the other Council members all sorts of names.  Oh, it was "You're  a bunch of poop heads," and "You are meany meanies," for days on end.

Not soon after they got the matches, the kids set a fire that burned down their house.  Now, the kids have no house to live in.

So now the kids are calling the Council members,who warned them, the same old names. And, not being very bright, they're still praising Lindy.

When Lindy was contacted by a newspaper, she shrugged and said "We don't live in a perfect world."

Oh, and Lindy's nice home in a gated community wasn't touched by the fire caused by the matches that she gave to the kids.

But remember, you kids with no house, "We don't live in a perfect world."  And also remember that Lindy really feels your pain. Pass the kleenex, please, as Lindy sings kumbaya about your house (not hers) that burned down. 

MORAL:  Don't trust stupid people who don't know what they're doing and who can't see future negative effects of their present actions.
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MAINE RANKED MOST PEACEFUL STATE

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"Most peaceful" is defined to mean less violent.

Now, why do you think Maine is less violent than any other state?

We'll tell you why.  It's the state with the least diversity and the most White people as a percentage of the population.   You won't read that in the above linked article, though.

Never fear, lefites, the federal government figures Maine is too White and is importating people from Africa to live in Maine.

Genes are us.
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A TOWEL DISPENSER

Ya think maybe that's what's under his shirt?

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WE IMAGINE SOME MORE...

While the townsfolk have been discussing buying a new broom for old Bob for the past three months, Old Bob's union has now entered the fray.

Union thug, in the audience: "While Old Bob was busy sweeping Newport Blvd. with a frayed broom, our cross-dressing Mayor was seen prancing around town doing some kinda Irish dance in what he called a kilt. 

We don't think it was a kilt at all, but a petite size dress made by non-union slave labor in Costa Mesa Rica."

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CM PRESS # 461

WE IMAGINE...

Costa Mesa has changed to a town meeting  form of municipal government.

We listen in at one of the town meetings on the budget.

Mayor: There's a motion on the floor to buy Old Bob a new broom this year so he can sweep Newport Blvd. Do I have a second?"

Jim, in the audience: "Second, for discussion."

Mayor: "The matter of buying Old Bob a new broom this year is open for discussion."

Frank, in the audience, with squinted eyes:  "How much, exactly, will that broom cost taxpayers, Mr. Mayor?"

Mayor: "We can get one down at the hardware store for $ 6.97."

Bill, in the audience: "Are you crazy?  You want to spend $ 6.97 for a broom? Say, isn't the owner of that hardware store a friend of yours?"

Mary, in the audience: "I think $ 6.97 is a good price."

Ralph, in the audience:  "Mr. Mayor did you put this out for a bid?"

Fred, in the audience:  "Is that new broom made in America?"

Ron, in the audience:  "Mr. Mayor, I just took a poll and 52 per cent of the people say they don't want to buy Old Bob a new broom.  You better listen to the citizens, Mr. Mayor, that's all I can say."

Betty, in the audience:  "Mr. Mayor, I don't think you fully informed the citizens why we need to buy a new broom for Old Bob."

Jason, in the audience: "You need to slow this process down, Mr. Mayor.  You need to not go so fast."

Al, in the audience: "Mr. Mayor, what are you trying to put over on us?  That picture ain't of Old Bob.  That's Old James."

Anne, in the audience: "You shut up, Al.  That is Old Bob."

Six hours later and the discussion is still going on about buying Old Bob a new broom.
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NEWPORT NOW PLANNING ON LAYING OFF WORKERS AND MAYBE DOING SOME MORE OUTSOURCING
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We've written this many times, but we'll do it again. 

We think that Newport Beach and Costa Mesa should become one city called Newport Beach.

If this were done, layoffs might not have to be done at the blue collar end of the work force because the merged city would eliminate bureaucratic duplication at the more expensive top end.

We believe residents of both areas would benefit in  too many ways to outline here.

The combined city would be about the size of Huntington Beach both in population size and land area.

Specifically, with all numbers rounded and with populaton figures based  on 2000 census data:

Huntington Beach has a land area of around 29 square miles. It's population is roughly 190,000.

Costa Mesa has a land area of around 17 square miles.  It's population is roughly 110,000.

Newport Beach has a land area of around 9 square miles.  It's population is roughly 75,000.

A combined Costa Mesa and Newport Beach, as one new city, would have a land area of around 26 square miles. Its population would be around 185,000.
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SUPERBUG GENE IN DRINKING WATER?
Link to HuffPost article

The HuffPost article is really pretty muddled, but since it's likely that this "gene" will get more face time in the popular press, we've linked to it anyway.

For a clearer report on this, read this article HERE.

It's just another example of the unending process of evolution via the survival of the fittest principle working itself out in bacteria. 

The fit survive and make more like themselves and eventually replace the less fit.

BTW, a "gene" is not so much a discrete thing as it is a bit of DNA code located at a certain point on chromosomes.

Thus, on one of your 46 chromosomes, you'll have a little section of code for, say, your hair color.

That section of code is what we call a gene.
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NEXT DUI CHECKPOINT THIS SATURDAY--Newport/17th Street

The CMPD will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on Saturday, April 9, 2011, on Newport Boulevard at 17th Street between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.
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THE DAILY PILOT IS RUNNING MY  MENSINGER/WEST
'DEBATE' LETTER

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It's a bit late (I actually sent it in the same night as the "debate" appeared), but the Pilot has apparently been getting lots of letters lately.

Since I never post comments under letters or articles at the Pilot, I had included a link to the CM PRESS with my letter so I could directly answer any comments to my letter over here.  Unfortunately, the Pilot didn't include the link with my letter.

The major thrust of my letter in the Pilot is to say that if people, such as, but not limited to, Geoff West, want to argue against outsourcing or right sizing our local government, they should offer some logical reasons  for their position and not just emote.

[That's a photo of West up in the left corner.  No, we still don't know what's under his shirt. Again, our best guess is that it's a towel dispenser from a men's room for frequent crying jags and emotional outbursts.

Mensinger is the good looking, vibrant, guy on the right with the thoughtful and intelligent expression.

Because of the way the photos are displayed it appears that Mensinger, with his mouth slightly open, is looking at West and saying "What the hell is that?" But, of course, this is just because of the juxtaposition of the photos.]
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Those are our opinions.  Thanks for reading them.

CM PRESS # 460

POLLUTION ON THE WESTSIDE?

[photo of Rob Dickson--who should not be on the Planning Commission] 

The guy in charge of ClaVal--the big foundry/machine shop/valve maker on Placentia and 17th Street--got an award last night from the City Council.

In his comments when he was accepting the award, this guy showed photos of new equipment that had recently been installed. 

He said the equipment would produce less pollution.  Less pollution?   Pollution?

You mean a big industrial facility has pollution?  You mean all those acres aren't just used for people sitting around watching the grass grow?  They actually make things there? They use chemicals? Who'd a thunk it?

Say, someone ask that know-nothing, improvement obstructionist Rob Dickson on the Planning Commission if he still says there's no pollution on the Westside.

Folks, the reason we keep bringing this pollution point up is because it's just plain stupid to deny that there's pollution from manufacturing facilities. 

Almost every factory has to use solvents and various chemicals, and there is always something that escapes into the air or ground.  Look, if you open a can of paint thinner at your house, you release some pollution into the air.  That's just the way it is.

As far as we know, the manufacturing facilities on the Westside, including Cla-Val, try to be good neighbors and they try to stay within reasonable and safe limits--but that's not our point. We're not complaining about Cla-Val.

Our point, again, is that it's just plain stupid to deny that there's pollution or to deny that various medical conditions can be caused by various sorts of pollution.

Dickson also denied that illegal aliens (the ones you see hanging out by the factories) are employed in some of those factories. Geez, maybe those illegal aliens are just vacationing near those factories. 

But, wait a minute, we don't know for certain that they are illegal aliens, right Dickson?  Isn't that your position?

No, of course we didn't check their IDs. But, we can make reasonable inferences. 

Dickson has also been ducking us and trying to avoid some simple questions about improving the Westside.

You see, our issue with Dickson is that he seems to want to try to keep the Westside from improving in meaningful ways and he's trying to do this by denying anything negative about the area. Why?  Well, if there's nothing broken on the Westside, don't fix it. 

We think Dickson has also denied that there are slums there.

See the pattern with this guy? 

It's as though he's saying  "All is swell with the Westside.  Don't bother your pretty little heads with trying to fix something that isn't broken." 

Oh, he'll suggest some sweet nothings as improvements, but don't be fooled.  The Westside needs some major improvements. 

And, we need people on the Planning Commission with the brains and the guts to make the improvements in the face of the criticism they'll get from the usual creeps.

When Dickson was just mouthing off with no official position, we could ignore him.  But, now that he's on the Planning Commission he's too close to the levers of power.

If  Dickson disagrees with the above, or thinks we don't understand what he stands for, we'd welcome his comments. 

Come on Dickson, you know how to send comments.  But, try using your real name. Tell us what you think needs to be done to fix the Westside. 

We'll be happy to print any rebuttal you want to send us, but don't try to BS us, because we'll take your rebuttal apart line by line.

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NOTE TO COSTA MESA TV CREW
CEO Hatch  leans forward to his microphone when he speaks from the dais.  This puts the lights right in his eyes and causes him to squint.  Maybe the lights can be adjusted?
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NYC GOVERNMENT LOW ON MOOLA, MAY CLOSE 20 FIRE COMPANIES
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UNKNOWN FORCE OF NATURE MAY HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED
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Hint is that is something beyond the Higgs-Boson.
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AN INTERESTING OFFER OF AN AUDIT LAST NIGHT

An interesting proposal was made by one of the employee associations last night when it said that it would pay for a let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may audit of the City's books.

The only problem with the proposal was that the employee association wanted to pick the people doing the audit.

A better approach would be to have the employee association and the City Council jointly agree on who should do the audit.
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CIVICS 101

We keep seeing posts from some who say "the people" are telling the City Council what the people want and the City Council isn't listening.

This is nonsense.

In the first place, we've elected a Council to ensure that Costa Mesa is a great city for the people who live here. 

We expect the adults on the Council to make the hard decisions and not be influenced by emotion (as is Windy (sic) Leece). 

We expect good, logical and businesslike decisions. We don't want people who want to be loved by everyone so they don't do what is needed to fix Costa Mesa.

In the second place, our form of government here in Costa Mesa is not based on town meetings as it is in some very small New England towns, where the whole town votes on whether to buy a City employee a new snow shovel this year or not.

For the first time in our memory, we have a true majority on the City Council that is working for the benefit of the citizens of Costa Mesa.
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ALABAMA LAWMAKERS APPROVE CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL ALIENS
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'Bama doesn't want to be a sanctuary state. 
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LOTS OF BACK STORIES NOT GOING TO BE MADE PUBLIC

Our guess is that we're going to see people resign from their City jobs as the authorities learn who has been behind threats, libelous comments and other problems. 

"Voluntary" resignation  is often an easy out in such situations for all concerned.

And, by "authorities" we don't mean the CMPD, as we're told that many people simply have little trust in the department because of the actions of a lefty clique of individuals in the department who are overly politicized and who seem to be using their uniforms to push a lefty social and political agenda.

In Costa Mesa, things really have gotten topsy turvy as a result of this overly politicized clique. 

The righties, who are traditionally the natural supporters and defenders of cops, aren't supporting or defending them as much as before because of the overly politicized lefty clique.

Meanwhile, the lefties,the improver obstructionists, the illegal alien supporters and assorted other lefty kooks who like to call cops "pigs," are supporting them.  That tells you something.

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BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, AND BLAH, BLAH BLAH

The people who want you to pay more taxes and fees, and who don't want the City to comparison shop to get City services done for the best price, were at the City Council meeting last night. 

Most of them were employees or relatives of employees. Most don't even live in Costa Mesa.

Their rudeness and ignorance was on display, and rather than gaining sympathy, we think they turned off a lot of citizens who just as a matter of principle don't usually like to even think about laying people off.

The CM PRESS joins those who don't like to think of laying people off.  We'd rather see the City right size itself through attrition and hiring freezes, but the City has already done that and it hasn't been enough.  Now, the layoffs must come.

Some citizens who actually live in Costa Mesa, and who are fed up with arrogant employees making personal attacks and threatening Council members, have contacted us to say the Council should lay off ALL City employees and start over fresh in a sort of Biblical Cities of the Plains scenario.

When the City Council members finally had an opportunity to explain what the Council is trying to accomplish, the four good Council members did a good job.

 In fact, they did such a good job that one imagines the out of town goons are probably hoping that all of Costa Mesa wasn't tuned into the meeting via television.

Here, in most basic form is what the Council members said:  We don't have any money.  Past Councils spent our bank account down to dangerously low levels while viewing a falling economy with rosy glasses.  Now, the present Council is left to clean up the mess and get the City on a proper financial footing or let the city go bankrupt.

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Those are our opinions.  Thanks for reading them.

CM PRESS # 459

AN EPIDEMIC OF RAPE FOR HAITI'S DISPLACED
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Funny, there's no epidemic of rape in Japan.

Hmmm.  Let's see if we can figure this out.  Haiti had an earthquake.  Japan had an earthquake. In Haiti there's an epidemic of rape (and other violent crimes).  In Japan there is no such epidemic.

What can the difference be between the two peoples? 

We'll bet lefties can answer that.  "Ummma, uma...the Japanese eat a lot of rice.  Ah, the Japanese live on islands. What? Haiti is also on an island? Okay, ah, the Japanese make lots of cars and other stuff."

Over on the side, the Greek chorus sings:  It's the genes.
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WE IMAGINE...

POLL OF FORD WORKERS JUST IN

A full 99% of Ford workers say the company shouldn't lay any of them off, and that management should listen to the workers. 

The workers say that management must show them charts and statistics that prove that outsourcing many jobs is good for the company.

Workers are now trying to recall management to replace it with a more compliant group.

In other polling results, the workers say that the company should bring back the Edsel.

When asked about outsourcing, brake department worker Bob G. said "The company hired us, so it owes us lifetime jobs.  I don't care what management thinks.  And, I don't care if they can get my work done for less money by outsourcing. They owe me. If they'll just bring back the Edsel, they won't have to lay anyone off."

When told that the Edsel wouldn't sell, Bob G. said that the company should just make them anyway to keep the workers employed.

"I mean," said Bob G., "management is just a few guys.  Why do they make the decisions?  Why don't they listen to the workers?  There's a lot more of us than them."

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LONG BEACH TO CONSIDER OUTSOURCING STREET SWEEPING
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If you read down into the article you'll see that 22 employees will be laid off. 

But, the interesting thing is that the union in Long Beach points out that 16 of those employees actually live in Long Beach.

That's almost 73% of the workers being laid off who actually live in the city where they work.

Now why haven't the unions in Costa Mesa pointed out how many Costa Mesa workers actually live in Costa Mesa?

We'll tell you why.  The numbers would show that most Costa Mesa workers don't live here.

As we've reported many times, when the CM PRESS was able to get hold of figures for the CMPD a few years ago, we learned that more than 75% of our cops don't live here.

What the figures are for other employees, we don't know.

The City became as silent as a tight lipped bivalve mollusk after we started asking the Council to try to hire people who live in Costa Mesa.
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT
Link to agenda.

Hopefully, the authorities will get good photos of the audience. 

Chances are that those who have threatened the good Council members will be there.
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REWARD GROWS TO $50K TO FIND HISPANIC HATERS WHO BEAT A WHITE GUY INTO A COMA AFTER A DODGERS GAME
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Various news reports indicate these suspects have distinctive tattoos. They were seen driving away from their hate crime with a boy about 10-years-old and a woman.

Someone is going to turn these punks in.

Odd, isn't it, that Whites are often the victims of choice of non-White violent criminals and yet many Whites still seem to be unaware that they are being victimized because of the color of their skin? 

The press tries to hide the racial aspects of the crimes and often won't report race/ethnicity of attackers and victims. 

And, if the race of the attacker is given, it's usually accompanied by a few lines that indicate the motive was robbery, or as in the case above, that the White guy in a coma was attacked solely because he was wearing the wrong team's shirt.
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HEY KIDS, THE ASTRO-TURF FOLKS AT REPAIR COSTA MESA HAVE A NIFTY NEW AD ON THEIR SITE

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There's still no info on the site about who is behind this phony "group." 

They've taken down the ad showing Gary Monahan wearing his dress kilt. (Maybe it was getting too many votes from cross dressers).

In the latest ad they're running on the site, they show the four good Councilmembers in a negative light, but they don't show Councilmember Windy (sic) Leece. 

Yup, good ol'  "In God We Trust"  and probably waiting to be raptured Windy who claims to be a conservative, once again is shown, by her omission from the site, to be a lefty who doesn't care about the citizens of Costa Mesa.

Wowzer--the ad has all these cartoon figures who suddenly disappear.  Why, why...it's kind of like the rapture.  Almost prophetic! (Read article below)..
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THE END OF THE WORLD OCTOBER 21, 2011
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Rapture begins on May 21, 2011. 

Will we see one Councilperson suddenly wafted into the big union and lefty charities in the sky as she smiles beatifically while all the rest are left down here for the fiery destruction?

Don't count on it.

Our guess is that when nothing happens on May 21, the true believers will, at that point, say their calculations were off, so the world probably won't end on October 21, either.

Yes, there are apparently some folks who believe this stuff.  They're probably the same ones who don't believe Costa Mesa has financial problems.

It's always fun to read how those claiming the world is going to end on a certain day explain away why it didn't end when the sun comes up the next day.

"Well, my math was off," is an old favorite and is used all the time.  "People prayed and the Lord changed his mind and decided to not end the world yet," is another explanation that is often heard.  Ho hum.

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RETIRED TEACHERS IN CALIPENSIONFORNIA MAKE MORE THAN WORKING TEACHERS IN MOST OTHER (SANE) STATES

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HISPANIC TRIES TO KIDNAP GIRL NEAR WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL

Link

Girl was smart and wouldn't let the creep force her into his car.  The first rule of staying safe in such a situation is to never let the kidnapper take you to a different location.  Fight to get away from that first point of contact.

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CM PRESS # 458

GROUP AGAINST GETTING COSTA MESA'S EXPENSES IN LINE TO FILM IN COSTA MESA PARKS
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HISPANIC MAN SHOOTS WHITE COP IN LA
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HARBOR BLVD OF CARS FAST FOOD

At the March 11, Planning Commission meeting, the Commission is expected to approve a plan for a new Chick Fil-A, a new Fresh and Easy Market and some retail space on the property adjacent to the McDonald's on Harbor Blvd. near the 405. McDonald's also wants to add an additional drive thru lane.
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TWO MEN ASSAULTED AT TRIANGLE SQUARE LAST NIGHT--ONE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION

The CMPD reports that two men who had just left the Sutra Lounge were allegedly attacked by Mark Allen Vasquez of Pico Rivera on March 3.  One of the victims hit his head on concrete in the parking structure and is listed in critical condition.  The other victim had minor injuries and was not hospitalized.  Vasquez was arrested by the CMPD and is being held on $ 25,000 bail.
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HOW THOSE LOONY LEFTIES TRY TO FOOL YOU

We're seeing the lefty thugs trying to stop the Costa Mesa City Council from getting our financial house in order in a number of ways. 

Their prime weapon is to try to confuse the citizens of Costa Mesa  and cause them to doubt the Council.

Here's one of the things the lefty thugs are saying: "Costa Mesa's CEO Tom Hatch indicates that Costa Mesa may have around a $ 5 million deficit next year, but Councilmember Steve Mensinger says the deficit will be around $ 15 million.  So which is it?  Or is it neither, and these guys don't know what they're talking about?"

Now, we don't want to put words in Hatch or Mensinger's mouths but we think what they mean is this:

Hatch is projecting things as they are now as though the City just kept robbing Peter to pay Paul instead of serving the citizens of this city by tackling the deferred maintenance.

Mensinger, on the other hand, is saying that we've put off fixing our streets and other things for far too long and that the Council has a fiduciary responsibility to the citizens to start fixing these things.  Doing this will put us in a $ 15 million hole because we haven't been doing what we should have been doing for years and instead took money that should have gone into the streets and other infrastructure items and doled it out like an ATM machine on ex-lax to employees.

In other words, the stitch in time that would have saved nine wasn't done and now we need to cough up the nine instead of the one.
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IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK IT'S A UNION

One of the things that some of the out of town workers are saying is that they're not in unions; they're in  associations.

I'm familiar with that argument. And it doesn't hold water for me.  I'm in the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and it's often said that we're not a union, we're a guild.

However, as far as I can tell, the employee's associations and SAG have all the characteristics of unions. 

Call them anything you want but the general term 'union' fits.
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COSTA MESA TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION
Here again is a link to the group.
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CITY OF HALF MOON BAY TO OUTSOURCE COPS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT
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Has same problems as Costa Mesa and many other cities and needs to re-invent itself in a business model instead of being an ATM for City workers.

Look folks, this isn't complicated. For years, many cities in California have had bend-over City Councils that just keep robbing citizens to pay out of town employees.

These bend-over politicians stay in office by getting the financial support of the out of town employees and then they bend-over for them whenever the out of town employees tell them to do so.

And, we're here to tell you that most citizens are oblivious to this scam that's been going on for years.

Now, it has to stop. Thankfully, we have four good Councilmembers in Costa Mesa who are trying to stop the scam.

These four good Councilmembers deserve your support in this struggle because the out of town thugs are back to their personal attacks, threats and smears to try to get the four to cave in and give away the store.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.

CM PRESS # 457

ALLAN ROEDER CHANGES HIS NAME TO GEORGE PAPANDREOU, GETS CONTACT LENSES, AND BECOMES PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE

You have to admit there is a slight resemblence.

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MESSAGE FROM A READER ABOUT AN ANONYMOUS HATE LETTER AGAINST THE CITY COUNCIL BEING DROPPED ON DOORSTEPS BY COWARDS

Anonymous said...

Today in the Freedom Home tract I found a single page letter on my doorstep titled "CORRUPTION AT CITY HALL, COSTA MESA". It is unsigned, but obviously a protective service, union document that provides a distortion of the issues facing us in our city. Any one else get this??? It probably is generated on a city computer, printed with a city printer on city paper stock. And maybe created on city time!!!

April 3, 2011 5:45:00 PM PDT
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A FEW POLL QUESTIONS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ASKED IN COSTA MESA

1. Do you think out of town union thugs should be allowed to run Costa Mesa?

2. Do you think the Costa Mesa City Council should act responsibly and try to save you money?

3. Do you think the Costa Mesa City Council should get our budget priorities fixed so that we can have our streets repaired?

4.  Do you think the Costa Mesa City Council should try to make our city a nicer place for those of us who live here and put our interests first?

5.  Are you willing to pay more taxes and fees so out of town employees of Costa Mesa can make more money than you make and so they can live in nicer cities and retire with better pensions than you get in the private sector?

6.  Do you think it's acceptable that some suspected City employees are making threats against City Council members?

7.  When you shop for goods and services for your family do you comparison shop and try to get the best price?  Do you think the City of Costa Mesa should do the same thing?

8.  When you took a job in the private sector, did you believe that you had a right to a liftime job because you were hired?

9. If you hire someone to mow your lawn, are you willing to pay, say $ 50 for the job if someone else can do the same job for $5?
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RAND PAUL SAYS NO COMPROMISE
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That should also be what the four good Councilmembers in Costa Mesa say. 
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LATEST ON THE WHITE GUY ATTACKED BY HISPANICS AFTER A DODGERS GAME
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Violent crime is not an equal opportunity employer.  Know it and you'll be safer. 

You better believe that  Dodgers' executives want to downplay the fact that anti-White punks are making more and more Whites avoid going to games (if comments from some LA TIMES readers seem to indicate).
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CM PRESS # 456

UPDATE ON INCIDENT OF MAN ATTACKED OUTSIDE DODGER GAME

The man attacked is a White man named Bryan Stow.  He is from Santa Cruz.  He was attacked by two Hispanics.  He is in a coma in critical condition.  The racial hate crime nature of the attack isn't even being hinted at in the press and the attack is being passed off as an attack based solely on the fact that Stowe was wearing a Giants shirt.

Hiding the racial nature of attacks on Whites by non-Whites is standard operating procedure by the establishment in this country.  However, if the races are reversed, the establishment is quick to try to find any racial motive for an attack by a White on a non-White.

Link to HuffPost article
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COMMENTS FROM A READER ABOUT THE WESTSIDE


1) The skid row on west 19th street is actively propagated by the CMPD - they are constantly interfacing with them, and coddle them. The west side citizens are second class to the skid row elements.

2) Costa Mesa's skid row , by my estimation, negatively impacts property values on the ENTIRE WEST SIDE to the tune of 10-30% - it's obvious to any that look that west side properties trade at 20-40% discounts to the east side. This is easily in the neighborhood of 50 grand and up. Thus, FOR EVERY SINGLE BLOCK on the west side - typically 20 home, is a $1 million hit on property value.

3) Code enforcement and law enforcement policy and procedure may be one thing but as always action speaks louder than words. Enforcement is non-existent and explained away by 'i'm just a (beat cop, code enforcer, etc) It never ceases to amaze me that CM enforcement employees explain 'why' they won't 'move folks along' like they do in Mesa Verde, East Side CM.

Property owners on the west side are second class citizens and have a lower priority than skid row participants in the eyes of CM enforcement.

In particular, it's striking that after the horrendous recycling operation was moved on (last day was Valentines Day! yippee!) that the same skid row inhabitants are STILL TO THIS DAY coddled by CM 'enforcement'.

Drive to Smart and Final and see for yourself. What an abdication of responsibility!

PROPERTY OWNER STUCK ON SKID ROW AGAINST OUR WILL
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THE CM PRESS COMMENTS:  You're one of many who are frustrated.  The CM PRESS constantly goes to City Council meetings, Planning Commission meetings and even Parks and Recreation Meetings and we often go to the podium and ask the new members of these bodies to dust off the Westside plans and get to work on implementing them.

We think the new Council is hearing us, and we think if they can get our financial house in order, that they'll start acting to improve the Westside.

One test of the Council will be coming up soon:  We've asked, and will continue to ask that the CDBG grants that are normally given to the charities that we believe are part of the problem, not be given to the charities, and that the money be used to help fix the infrastructure of the Westside.  This isn't a blue sky request.  It is perfectly legal and doable.

Frankly, if the Council votes against the Westside and keeps funding the magnet charities, we're going to be very pissed off.
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CM PRESS # 455

WE'RE LIKE SNOWFLAKES--NO TWO OF US ARE ALIKE--EVEN IDENTICAL TWINS ARE DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER
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Although the focus of this article is on schizophrenia, the deeper message is that extremely minor differences in the shuffle of our genes can have major effects in the complete organism.
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OKAY, I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE 'HUSBAND'S' FACE IN THE PHOTO BELOW AND I FLASH BACK TO WHEN I WAS AT STELLA ADLER'S ACTING SCHOOL IN NYC AND SOME COMMERCIALS I'VE BEEN IN AND SOME OTHER ACTING I'VE DONE

As you may know, one of the ways a method actor acts like he's been shot--since most actors probably have never really been shot and don't know what their facial expression would be if they were shot--is to imagine that he's just stepped into an ice cold shower.  Yeah, the expression is pretty much same.

So, with that in mind, I can imagine the director in the coffee print ad below first telling the husband to look really loving and eager for the coffee. And, I can imagine the actor saying "Geez, it's just coffee, give me a break." 

Finally, on take 15 or so, the director has an inspiration: "Okay, imagine the woman pouring the coffee is really pretty and she's wearing a skimpy bikini and is giving you a come hither look."

"Yeah, that's it, baby. That's the expression we want.  That's some good coffee and because it's instant we have time for other things!"
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SPEAKING OF POLLS (WHICH WE DO IN THE ARTICLE BELOW THIS ONE)

One of the classic studies in market research (which uses polls and polling techniques) was done by behavioral psychologist Mason Haire back in 1950.

In brief, what happened was that Nestle had come out with Nescafe instant coffee and it wasn't selling as the company thought it should. 

The company couldn't figure out why, because their own direct research indicated that certain key words such as "flavor" should do the trick.

Finally, the company hired Mason Haire to see if he could help.

Haire figured that those being asked direct questions about the product weren't giving answers that reflected their deeper motivations.

So, what Haire did was to take an oblique approach by making up two shopping lists that were identical except one had instant coffee and the other had non-instant coffee.

Then, Haire showed one or the other of the two lists to different groups of women (who do most of the grocery shopping)  and asked them to give him a word picture of the "woman" who had made up the particular shopping list she was shown.

It turned out that the "woman" who had made up the shopping list with instant coffee was seen as lazy and not a good wife of mother.

Nestle then changed its ads to counter that perception and the product sold as the company had hoped.

[Photo at top is a post-Haire ad.  Notice the husband's loving look as his modern wife (the hands tell you that) takes care of his "hunger" by pouring him a cup of coffee.] 
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[UPDATE: Tulchin Research just contacted us and said more data would be released to the public and press on Monday. We'll stay on top of it.]

POLL RESULTS IN DAILY PILOT ABOUT OUTSOURCING
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The CM PRESS has just contacted Tulchin Research to see if we can get a copy of the questions asked and other data.  We'll let you know what happens.

If any readers received a telephone call recently about outsourcing, and if you can remember the call, please send us your comments. 

We'd like to know as much as you can remember. For example: The questions asked.  The order in which they were asked.  The tone of the caller and whether it was a male or female.  How they pre-qualified you for the poll, i.e. did they ask your political affiliation, age, whether you voted in the last election, who you voted for nationally,etc. The time of day of the call.  And anything else you can remember. Minor details aren't always minor in well constructed polls, so don't be shy about telling us anything you remember. We'll sort it out.

Thanks.
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FARRAKHAN VS. OBAMA
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Interesting problem for Obama.  Many Blacks believe he is being controlled by neo-Cons who are anti-Islam, anti-Palestinians and pro-Israel.

If Obama sides with Farrakhan, the neo-Cons will smear him as an anti-Semite.  If he sides with the neo-Cons, many Blacks will consider him an Uncle Tom.

No doubt, Obama's advisors hope that most people won't be able to see clear lines of demarcation.  And, from a PR standpoint they will probably try to keep the lines blurred in people's minds.  One way to do that is to have neo-Con writers attack Farrakhan as a nut.

And, that's exactly what we see starting in the first sentence of the above linked article written by Jonathan M. Seidl. "Louis Farrakhan--leader of the Nation Of Islam--is at it again.spewing hate and stands in solidarity with his 'brother' Moammar Gadhafi."

Well, there you have it. You don't have to try to form your own opinion of what Farrakhan has said. Seidl has already told you that Farrakhan is "spewing hate."

A search of other things written by Seidl seems to show more than a few columns in which Muslims are portrayed in a negative light.

Frankly, and this is a position we've had for many years; when someone writes about people of another religion, we think they should give information on which religion, if any, that they follow or were born into.  So, what is Jonathan M. Seidl's religion?  We're not told.
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GIANTS FANS ATTACKED AFTER GAME
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You won't see a racial/ethnic description of the attackers and the victims in this article.  Wonder why?
You know why.
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NUTCASE WOMAN IN WISCONSIN ARRESTED FOR SENDING THREATS TO POLITICIANS
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It wouldn't surprise us if we soon read about similar arrests in Costa Mesa.  And, it also wouldn't surprise us if the people arrested work for the City.
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COSTA MESA $15 MILLION IN THE HOLE--IF WE WANT TO START TACKLING DEFERRED MAINTENANCE
Link to Daily Pilot article.

Most of Costa Mesa's budget is being sucked up by labor costs.  Not much left over to repair streets, sidewalks and the like and there's nothing at all left over to actually begin improving the Westside in ways that will attract young, upwardly mobile families the way Irvine is attracting them.

Hopefully, the new Council will dust off the Westside plans and start putting some money into fixing that area of Costa Mesa--which many of us believe is the key to improving all of Costa Mesa.
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DOWNWARD SPIRAL--AND A CALL FOR MORE INTOLERANCE

Some readers will read what we wrote above and will say that we can't compete with Irvine for young, upwardly mobile families because Irvine has better schools.

Those who say this are simply saying what we've been saying for years, but they may not know it.

The Westside of Costa Mesa has been on a downward spiral and it is hurting all of Costa Mesa.

A downward spiral means when things go wrong in one way, many things go wrong along with it.

This is so, because things are interconnected. 

Costa Mesa's schools--our physical, brick and mortar buildings--and our teachers, are every bit as good as those in Irvine.

Why are Irvine's schools better than those in Costa Mesa?  It is because of the students in those schools.

A school is ranked good or bad based not on the physical buildings or the teachers but on the average student scores on standardized tests.

This begs the question. Why, on the average, are Irvine's students scoring higher on standardized tests? 

The answer is that many of them are from upwardly mobile families.  They're from families that value education and achievement.  They are from families that are often fully engaged in the competition of life. 

These families are awake and not simply sleep walking through life. They demand the best for themselves and their families.  If they see something wrong in their neighborhood, they try to fix it or they complain to the local government.  They don't just walk by drunks lying on the sidewalk wiout complaining.  They don't just see gangs and shut up.

They don't let the city become a skid row. They take personal responsibility for things.

Here's another word to describe them: INTOLERANT.

They are very intolerant of things that will drive down their quality of life.

Costa Mesa needs more of that kind of intolerance.  We need to be intolerant of those things that are keeping the Westside from being one of the best parts of our city.

We need to be intolerant of those people who do nothing but smile and help keep the area downscale with kumbaya talk and charities that are acting as magnets.

You want tolerance?  Visit skid row or slum areas of cities.  You'll find tolerance up the ying yang.

But you may be saying, "Hey, I don't live on the Westside and my neighborhood is fine."

Well, get back to that interconnectedness business.  The Westside is a large geographic part of our city.  If it is allowed to become a skid row, the rot is going to spread and the whole city will get a bad reputation.  This will chase away upwardly mobile families. Then, the school scores will drop lower. This will chase away more families. Gangs  and social dysfunction will thrive.  You get the picture.

It is time for intolerance for downscale conditions and it is time for the City Council to start spending more money not only on repairing our existing infrastructure but on bringing in infrastructure changes to help put us on an upward spiral.
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