CM PRESS # 738

BIG U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING YESTERDAY FAVORING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Said that religious institutions--not the government--can decide who can be hired and fired to do the religious work of the institutions.  This ruling reinforces the ministerial exception to civil rights laws.

Had the court not ruled this way, religious institutions might  have faced discrimination lawsuits if they refused to hire atheists or those who did not believe or follow the particular religious institutions' religious beliefs and practices.

Discrimination?  At its heart it really just means choice.  
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RUSSIANS TRYING TO CRACK DOWN ON 'EXTREMIST IDEAS'

What are extremist ideas?  They're the ones that some in power don't like.
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SWARTZENTRUBER AMISH REFUSE TO PUT ORANGE TRIANGLES ON THEIR BUGGIES AND REFUSE TO PAY FINES ON RELIGIOUS GROUNDS--GO TO JAIL INSTEAD

Will wear specially dyed jail uniforms rather than the standard orange ones.
        
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ISRAELI RULING ON CITIZENSHIP CALLED RACIST

Palestinians married to Israelis can't live in Israel with their spouses.
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Sandy Genis

 UPDATE ON THE SANDY GENIS NINE MONTH CHARTER

A reader just sent us this message:

"The Orange County Charter that Sandy Genis loves to invoke all of the time is only 2 pages. Two pages!


"This isn't rocket science!!!!"
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Queen of  Slow--Wendy Leece.
In this photo it appears she may
be moving her lips.  Is she reading
something?



GOSLOW WENDY AND THE GOSLOW WENDYITES IN A DITHER

They say they can't read the seven page draft charter between now and the next meeting on the charter to be held on February 13.

We imagine a conversation in the lair of the Goslow Wendyites...

"It's impossible.  How can anyone read seven pages in a month? 

"This City Council is going too fast. Reading seven pages in a month is, why, it's er, ah, like rocket speed.  We're not geniuses.

"We can't move our lips that fast, they'd get all sore and stuff if we tried to read that fast.

"Sandy Genis said when she was on a committee someplace or other to come up with a charter it took them nine months.  See, that's at least how much time we need to read seven pages--nine months, or maybe longer.

"Let's all go very slowly down to City Hall and slowly complain.

"WE WANT SLOWNESS!  WE WANT SLOWNESS! WE WANT A CITY COUNCIL THAT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING!  WE WANT A CITY THAT STAGNATES!"
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Those are our  opinions.  Thanks for reading them.  If you're a Goslow Wendyite, the above may take you  a week or so to read, so we won't expect any comments from you right away.

CM PRESS # 737

[TECH PROBLEM WITH COMMENTS, SORRY]
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NEW ESTIMATE: 100 BILLION PLANETS IN OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY
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 HERE'S ELEANOR EGAN AGAIN

Ms. Eleanor spoke against the charter last night and got into the Daily Pilot today with her brilliant quote that the seven page charter has "[M]ore holes than Swiss cheese with a mouse in it." Now, wasn't that a brilliant and funny thing to say?

THIS IS ROBIN LEFFLER

The Robins are a frequent critic of the good Councilmembers.

Lately, why as late as last night, in fact, the Robins seem to have become obsessed with Jim Righeimer's sometimes use of the "royal we" when the Jims speak of actions that the Council or City may take.

The Robins  hears that "we" and figures that the Jims must be speaking to other people, by golly, and if those other people (squint eyes suspiciously here) are on the City Council, the Robins want to know if there's a Brown Act violation.

Gee, Robins, we CM PRESSES often use the " royal we" also, but we don't really mean we as more than one. We use it as a literary device. 

But the real issue with the Robins appears to be their dislike for the Jims rather than the issue of the charter.  If not, what are we  to make of this quote in the Daily Pilot from the Robins:  "We're not saying no to a charter. We're saying no to a Righeimer charter."

Ah, Robins, who is the "we're" in your above quote?  How many of you Robins are there? 

You can read more of what Eleanor and the Robins have to say in the DAILY PILOT HERE.

That's all that we Martins have to say about this at this time.
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LAWYER DEFENDING SOUTH CAROLINA'S VOTER ID LAWS THINKS DOJ IS BIASED AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE, SUES

From A3P.
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A HERD OF GOSLOW WENDYITES APPROACHES CITY HALL

"Go slow, go sloooow, go sloooooooow, the draft charter is seven pages.  Go sloooooooooooow.

"We can't be expected to read seven whole pages in a month!

"That's more pages than we've read in our entire lives and the pages we read before mostly had pictures."

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GERALDO RIVERA: THE LAST TO KNOW THAT MITT'S FATHER WAS BORN IN MEXICO?

The CM PRESS thought everyone knew this, so we didn't bother writing our own column about it.

Here's the story in a nutshell: Among the Mormons who fled to Mexico to avoid religious persecution in the U.S. was Mitt Romney's grandfather who had several wives. From one of those wives, Mitt's father was born.

There are still a couple of Mormon colonies in Mexico.
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[UPDATE]:  AZ SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTED LAST NIGHT TO KILL ITS HATE WHITEY PROGRAM

State said it would cut off funds if it kept its hate Whitey program. 

Just another sign that Whites are starting to fight back against anti-White bigots and haters.

Now, how about a Congressional White Caucus to protect White interests just as there is a Congressional Black Caucus and a Congressional Latino Caucus?

[And over in the wings, the Good Whites say, "Tsk, tsk, it would be racist to have a Congressional White Caucus, but it's great that there's a Congressional Black Caucus and a Congressional Latino Caucus.  It just shows that THOSE people are proud of who and what they are."]
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CM CITY COUNCIL
CM PRESS stock photo

SLOW READERS AT CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT 

Jim Righeimer has come up with a seven page draft charter for the city that is based on charters that work for other cities. 

Seven pages. 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7.  Seven.  7.  One more than six.  One less than eight. Not nine.  Not ten.  Seven. Five fingers on one hand, plus two on the other.  Not even two complete hands.

This plainly worded seven page draft charter (with no big words)pretty much keeps everything the same as it is now in the city, but gives local control to the citizens of Costa Mesa instead of letting politicians in Sacramento decide what is right for us.

But at last night's City Council meeting, the usual characters trooped to the podium to tell the Council that the Council should slow down because many people don't understand the charter and need time to understand it.

Don't understand?  It's only seven pages long.  How long does it take some of these people to read seven pages and understand what is there?

Others said that many in the public haven't even heard of the charter.

Folks, if you've followed civic affairs in this or any other city, you know that there will always be people who can't understand simple English written on just a few pages.

You also know that the City could put information about the charter on billboards on every busy street in the city, on banners behind planes, in letters to every house in the city, and do all of these things and more for ten years, and there would still be people who would say slow down we don't understand, and others who would say that they've never heard of the charter.  And, I don't mean this figuratively.

But the truth behind this slow reading and slow thinking herd is just lefty politics and human frailty.

Many of the people who spoke last night are the same lefties, exhibitionists and haters who speak at almost every City Council meeting. 

The lefties are driven by the unions and want to keep feathering the nests of the union employees by electing puppets to the City Council this year who will rob from citizens to pay employees who don't even live in this city.

The exhibitionists just want to put meaning in their otherwise meaningless lives by getting a shot of dopamine from their exhibitionism.

The haters just hate change, or their own lives,  or conservatives, or Republicans, or Righeimer, Mensinger, Bever and Monahan.

We  imagine the inner thoughts of some of the people who spoke...

 "HEY, LOOK AT ME! PLEASE! EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME! I AM SOMEBODY!  I'm standing up here and I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, because I don't have an original thought in my tiny brain, but I think I'm pretty much mirroring the mood of the majority of the lefties, other exhibitionists and haters who are here tonight, so applaud me when I finish. I need that applause. Smile at me also. I need that. Give me your nods of approval. Your attaboys.  Then, I'll feel really good about myself. I really need the approval of the herd because I have an inadequate personality and no sense of self worth.  But, if you missed me tonight, don't worry, I'll be back at all subsequent meetings on any subject and I'll try to follow the lefty herd at each so I can get more shots of dopamine."
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Those are our opinions.  Thanks for reading them.

CM PRESS # 736

ROCKER TED NUGENT WRITES ABOUT THE DIVERSITY SCAM

Diversity is not our greatest strength; it may be our greatest weakness.
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ISRAELI LAWMAKERS APPROVE HARSH PENALTIES FOR  ILLEGAL MIGRANTS, ISRAELIS WHO HELP THEM

Israeli lawmakers understand that open borders and false "compassion" for the law breaking illegal aliens and those who help them will destroy the country as it is.

So, why don't U. S. lawmakers also see that?
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ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THE EUGENICS MATTER IN NC
This article is from Russia's RT (that we permanently link to over on the right).

God protect us from some of the "well-meaning" people in government who think the government has the right to sterilize people or persecute them for their religious beliefs--as with the fundamentalist Mormons.

And, there is always some color of law and rationalizations as to why government does these things that are later seen as the evil that they are.

We'd all be better off if we could recognize these wrongs while they're happening and correct them then and there and not have to wait fifty or so years to set things right.

The general principle here should be an understanding that the government--composed of individuals, remember-- really should have no more power to impinge on the natural rights of individuals,who are minding their own business, not hurting anyone, not breaking any just and reasonable laws and are just being human.
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UPDATE: Pat Buchanan denies he's been suspended from MSNBC; says he has health problems.
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POPE SAYS GAY MARRIAGE A THREAT TO HUMANITY

You don't have to be Catholic to understand why.
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MICHELLE OBAMA DISTRESSED OVER POWER OF JEWS WHITE IRISH CATHOLICS

Which, as you may have guessed, brings us to something for your listening pleasure from the CM PRESS's favorite Southie band The Dropkick Murphys.
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NC TO COMPENSATE EUGENICS VICTIMS

In my national columns I have frequently attacked eugenics and the false science behind it.  

Eugenics is based on the false notion that we can have a better world if we keep "defectives" from breeding.  The problem is that it doesn't work and it robs people of their right to procreate and gives government too much power over the lives of people.
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CANADIAN SPECIAL  PROSECUTOR WANTS NO PART IN BIGOTRY AND PERSECUTION OF FUNDAMENTALIST MORMONS

Canadian bigots in government keep appointing special prosecutors and most of the special prosecutors say the government should leave the fundamentalist Mormons alone, so the bigots keep appointing new special prosecutors as they try to find puppets who will persecute people because of their religious beliefs.

Upside Down Values In Our Present Dark Age

Gay marriages, which are completely unnatural, are fine and dandy according to many in our present Dark Age, but polygamous marriages, which are natural, are to be persecuted. 

This is turning nature's laws and values upside down. 

Don't get it?  Gay marriages do not follow nature's law to "go forth and multiply your kind."

Polygamous marriages, on the other hand, tend to produce the greatest number of children.

Nature's laws don't have to be written down by man.  They are written in everything that exists.  They just need to be discovered and understood. 
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CM PRESS # 735

BLACK REVEREND CALLS FOR THE KILLING OF WHITES

Says he'll never take it back.
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 MSNBC SUSPENDS PAT BUCHANAN

Pat is too pro-White for the lefties and he insists on telling the truth.

HERE'S a link to Pat's Website.
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SUGGESTION TO CITY COUNCIL: FORMATION OF A WESTSIDE REVITALIZATION COMMITTEE

The CM PRESS is calling upon the City Council to start a standing Westside Revitalization Committee that will be charged with the specific task of studying the Westside Plans and finding ways that "small" inexpensive parts of the plans--or implied elements of the plans, that may be deduced from a fair reading of the plans--may be undertaken, and in then making recommendations to the City Council for implementation.

Why is such a committee needed?

Here's an example. The City Council adopted the Westside Plans in 2005.  This is 2012, and no one bothered to even think about putting up a "19 West" sign on West 19th Street as recommended in the plans until the CM PRESS brought this to the attention of the City Council recently.

Talk about going slow. Good grief.

There are other things that can be done to give the area a new vitality and an identity that will help the area improve without too much expense--it would be the purpose of the committee to ferret out these inexpensive, mostly aesthetic, items and bring them to the attention of the Council.

Please, City Council, if you decide to form such a committee, don't appoint any seat warmers or goslow people who just like to flap their lips. Appoint doers.  Appoint people who are used to taking action.  Appoint people who make things happen.  Appoint people who will drive the changes we need.
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NO-PLANNING PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING TONIGHT

Yawn. 

There is one person on this five person commission who is dead wood and who shouldn't be there. He knows nothing.  He does nothing. He has no original ideas.  He might as well be living in Kansas--that's how uninvolved he is in the life of this city and its genuine improvement.

There's also a second person on the commission who is ineffective and who should be replaced.

And, there's a third who is  simply going through the motions and who should be replaced.

So, there you have it.  A five person commission and in our opinion three of the people there should be replaced.

Who's to blame for them being there?  The City Council.

Running a city like a business is something the CM PRESS is in favor of doing.  But, it should be more than just a slogan, and our board of directors (the City Council) needs to put the right people in the right spots to make things work properly.  The board of directors also has to replace people when they don't work out.

We don't need any more goslow Wendyites in government at any level. 
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CM PRESS # 734

SCHOOLMARM WENDY GIVES US SOME JINGOISTIC COSTA MESA EXCEPTIONALISM DRIVEL

Remember Wendy telling us that we have the best employees [in the state or country or world or universe, or whatever] and that our employees are part of our family?

Well, now she's back with more of this childish twaddle in her above linked blog column about the 19th Street bridge and the charter.

Wendy writes, "[W]e Costa Mesans are up for it!" [Getting the bridge off of MPAH.] Yeah, damn right, that's because we're special.  Somehow, living in Costa Mesa has made us this way. We ain't like them Newporters or Huntington Beachers or them there Fountain Valleyers. No, by golly, we're Costa Mesans! Be true to your school city!

Then, Wendy writes: "Costa Mesa is a very unique city."  It is?  Why and how is it unique?  Wendy doesn't tell us that.  Sometimes you just have to have belief.

She goes on about the charter, "We should not be copying and pasting from other cities! Makes us look dumb! We aren't!"
No, Wendy, you writing that makes you look dumb.  No laws or constitutions or legal documents are made of whole cloth.  They all build on what's already been done successfully.  It is supremely dumb to not cut and paste and instead try to reinvent the wheel. 

BTW all those exclamation points are Wendy's! (except this one, which is mine)

Goslow Wendy brags that she lives on the Westside.  Yes, it's true, at least geographically,but she lives in a gated insular community that, as we've said before, might as well be in Beverly Hills. 

And, what has Wendy done to improve the Westside while she's been in office?  Nothing.  In fact, her constant schmoozing with the charities just helps keep the area downscale.

The Westside Plans were finished more than five years ago.  Where have they been?  Gathering dust.  Why hasn't Wendy been doing something with them?  The heavy thinking has already been done.  They just need to be implemented, and this takes will on the part of the City Council.

In fact, the only reason that the Westside Plans are now finally being dusted off and the only reason that the sign for "19 West" is finally going to go up on W. 19th Street is because the CM PRESS reminded the good Councilmembers about the plans and the sign, and they are  now taking action.  And, I don't even live on the Westside. Bever lives on the Westside but way up in the north part so he probably doesn't notice the absence of the sign. Wendy, however, probably drives by 19th and Harbor (where the sign will go) a couple of times a day.  What's Wendy been doing?  Oh right, she's been busy going slow and trying to curry favor with local lefties.

If you start seeing some improvements on the Westside you can mainly thank Jim Righeimer, Steve Mensinger, Eric Bever and Gary Monahan.  Give no thanks to Wendy.  She's done nothing.  She's just too slow.  In fact, she even indicates how slow she is in her above column.  She's a slow thinker. A slow reader. A slow talker. A slow doer. Goslow Wendy is our new name for her (until we think of a better one).
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Those are our opinions.  Thanks for reading them.

CM PRESS # 733

ARIZONA TO HOLD BACK $ FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH A HATE WHITEY PROGRAM

No doubt this will enrage the Good Whites who love to be insulted and discriminated against because of the color of their skin. Sickos.
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Not Sandy Genis and not Jim Righeimer

 SANDY GENIS WANTS THE CITY TO SLOW DOWN AND REINVENT THE WHEEL
In her above column in the DAILY PILOT, Sandy Genis tells readers how she once served on a Charter Commission and they took nine months to come up with a charter.

She also wants Costa Mesa to slow down concerning the charter.

Why?  The work on studying charters has already been done--Genis spent months doing some slow thinking on the subject--so why reinvent the wheel?

Is Costa Mesa so different from other cities that have charters that we now have to start from scratch in order to listen to the usual assortment of lefty kooks who show up at City Council meetings to waste our time with their screwball ideas that will not be accepted?

The City should proceed with the draft proposal and take input as it is presently doing. It's a good framework.
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THE 19TH STREET BRIDGE MEETING LAST NIGHT--THE BRIDGE LOST THE BATTLE, BUT MAYBE NOT THE WAR...YET

Huntington Beach's Eader Elementary School's auditorium was jam packed to 3 and 4 deep standing room only and  there were a couple of hundred people who couldn't squeeze in who stood outside trying to listen at the door.

Our guess is that nearly 100 % of the people there were against the bridge in any shape or form.

The battle to build a bridge now is basically over and the bridge lost. 

But, The Bridge War Isn't Over

The bridge war isn't over yet because if the proposed bridge remains conceptually on the Master Plan of Arterial Highways (MPAH), developers can use the mere mention that it is still on the MPAH to over-develop now--as though the bridge is actually there--and add thousands of vehicle trips now. 

The result of this fictional bridge but real cars will be that the traffic will increase to such a level that intersections will fail and then a couple of years from now there will be another push to put in a bridge.

The argument then will be: "Gee, you let us add all this traffic a few years ago because of the fictional bridge  on the MPAH.  Now, we need the actual physical manifestation of that fictional bridge to relieve the traffic and help our residents have free flowing streets."

So, in order for the bridge war to be won, mention of the bridge MUST be removed from the MPAH.

Remember the above as we get more into the election this year. 

If a politician says he or she is against the bridge (and any local politician who is half-smart who doesn't say that, may not get elected), don't get all gushy.  Ask them if they are for removing mention of the bridge from the MPAH.

That's the real test: removal of every mention of the bridge from MPAH.

And, that's where the problem lies, because Newport Beach can refuse to let mention of the bridge be removed from the MPAH.
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Speaking of genes...

FOURTEEN PEOPLE WERE SHOT IN SEPARATE SHOOTINGS IN CHICAGO ON THURSDAY

[The low consciousness Good White People, as they shuffle to the back of the bus, say, in unison: "What do genes have to do with it?]
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KENNEDY WITH MC1R GENE VARIANT ON CHROMOSOME 16 TO RUN FOR BARNEY FRANK'S CONGRESSIONAL SEAT

Here's how to control this guy's liberal impulses: expose him to ultraviolet light and threaten to do some dental work on him without putting him to sleep. 

Those with this gene variant (it causes red hair, fair skin, freckles and light eyes) are sensitive to ultraviolet light and are resistant to subcutaneous anesthetics.

"Okay, Kennedy," says the GOP muscle, "we got your number, see.  Vote the way we want or we're gonna shine this light on you and then  have our loyal Republican dentist do some work on your teeth. Got it?"
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Our position...

NO BRIDGE!

Back when the Improvers were just getting started in trying to improve the Westside, the CM PRESS was against the 19th Street Bridge and we often spoke before the City Council every time one particular resident of Mesa Verde would call for the bridge (which was at almost every City Council meeting). We were usually the lone voice speaking against the bridge.

Our way of coming to our NO BRIDGE decision was based on the way we come to every decision.  That is, every action we take in life is either good, neutral, or bad.

And, in the context of the Westside, good means the area is improved, neutral means nothing changes, and bad means it will make the Westside worse.

But back then, before we came to the NO BRIDGE position, we briefly thought that a bridge and increased traffic on 19th Street, and especially west of Placentia, might make the street more attractive to a major supermarket along with some up scale retailers. 

In fact, such increased traffic might, indeed, attract the attention of such a supermarket and retailers, but on closer look, the site selectors for supermarkets and top retailers might realize, as we did, that the traffic is not good traffic.  It is not going to be primarily  Costa Mesa traffic with cars full of Costa MENSANS (oops), going to their local stores.  The traffic would be fast moving commuter and beach traffic just cutting through Costa Mesa.

In addition, given the fact that most of the lots on W. 19th Street are very small and shallow, a developer would have to find a way to deepen those lots and assemble many of them to accommodate the footprint for a  major supermarket and its surrounding stores. The only way to do that would be to use eminent domain and remove residential units that back up to the present commercial lots on W. 19th Street.  And, that's not going to happen. 

Now, even though we are against the bridge, we still, as always and on every subject, have an open mind and if anyone can convince us that our logic as briefly outlined above is wrong, we might reconsider.  But, we don't see that happening.

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 Those are our opinions.  Thanks for reading them.







CM PRESS # 732

SCIENTISTS 'CREATE' SUPER SOLDIER ANTS BY REACTIVATING ANCIENT DORMANT GENES

The real story here is the one indicated by the CM PRESS headline above, and not the one in the linked column.

Scientists didn't create something new; the genes for these characteristics were dormant within the ants themselves.  The scientists just found a way to have these genes expressed.

If we assume, just for experimental purposes, that the large head genes became dormant because they didn't offer a survival advantage in the past, and that they were replaced with small head genes, then it would be interesting to use some of these big head ants in an experiment in a controlled environment where equal numbers of big head ants and small head ants are let loose to see how natural selection works itself out.

Will the big head ants become extinct again?
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19th STREET BRIDGE MEETING TONIGHT
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GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS FOR PETER NAGHAVI

The good news is that he's been made Costa Mesa's first Economic Development Director. 

The bad news is that the Improvers will now be closely watching him to make sure some of that economic development happens on the Westside. 

And, if there is no economic development on the Westside, the ears of the City Council members and Mr. Hatch are going to be bent sideways with complaints.

We don't want to hear gushy tales of economic development in the South Coast Plaza area--that area can take care of itself.  We want to hear about economic development that will transform the Westside.

For starters, we'd like to see that "19 WEST" sign get installed in the middle of W. 19th Street, post haste.

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DECEPTIVE HEADLINE OF THE DAY:  "HOW TO FIGHT LIBERALS: IMITATE THEM"

The lead in to this story from Drudge was also deceptive: "New think tank sets up conservative on line newspaper..."

When you finally get to the story, you quickly realize that these aren't real conservatives at all.  At least not as we usually think of the term.

They're warmongering  Neocons.

Neocons are really liberals who are using the conservative label to build support for sending American kids into meaningless (for the U.S.) wars against various Islamic nations.  Their latest target is Iran.
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OUR FELLOW MENSAN STEPHEN HAWKING TURNS 70

Oh darn, we let it slip again.

[The photo, of course, is of Herbert Lom playing nutty Chief Inspector Dreyfus who was so obsessed with Inspector Clouseau that he'd develop a serious eye twitch and turn mad at the mention of Clouseau's name.]
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BLACK AL SHARPTON MAKES ANTI-WHITE COMMENTS

Good Whites rush to apologize for being white.
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THE CHARTER CITY MEETING LAST NIGHT

The CM PRESS went, perceived that nothing new would be heard, and left.

If you want to know about the charter, go to the City's website.  It's all there.
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CM PRESS # 731

Eleanor Egan

WE TOLD YOU MS. ELEANOR DIDN'T LOCK MR. TOM IN THE ATTIC

If she did, he's escaped and reached a computer again and has sent off his latest, greatest idea to the Daily Pilot HERE.

Mr.Tom wants a "court" of Costa Mesa citizens to be able to rule on what the City Council does.  Honest.

Yes, we think Mr. Tom is serious with his suggestion. No, we don't think he's joking.

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PROPOSED CITY CHARTER MEETING TONIGHT 1/4/12

City of Costa Mesa staff will hold an informational meeting on the proposed City charter, or local constitution, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 4, at the Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center.
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COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT (1/3/12)
[Some photos from the CM PRESS stock photo file and some taken last night]

Dear Readers:  The CM PRESS does not wish to engage in personal attacks, being the kind and genteel people that we are, however, we do think you'll get a better feel for people and events in Costa Mesa if we offer our subjective color* commentary from time to time.  And, with that in mind, we offer the following.

* [The chorus of Good White People sing: "Psssst, he said the word 'color,' pass it on."]


A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WEST


Geoff West

 GEOFF WEST--As he did at an earlier meeting, West yelled a greeting to us from across the room last night in what sounded to us like a strangulated pre-pubescent voice. [Well, that is how it sounded to us.  Maybe he has a cold.]  We do wonder, however, if there's some connection between our perception of his voice and the fact that he always seems to be on the verge of hysteria--think Chicken Little--over any changes being made by the good Councilmembers.  As usual, this guy didn't speak at the podium. He prefers to hide behind his computer and complain about everything the good Councilmembers do. We think he wants to be our pal. But, he seems to have a problem over the fact that we're in MENSA.* This is something that we don't usually mention, but we did mention it a few times years ago in some toss away context or other. Nevertheless, West seems to have internalized this. Funny, of all the thousands of words we've written, he seems to have most remembered and fixated on MENSA.   Say, West, geez, we don't want to set you off, but did we ever send you that newspaper photo of us when we were on the genius GE COLLEGE BOWL TV Show? [CM PRESS stock photo]

* All ribbing of West aside, we don't mention it much because we don't believe standardized I.Q. tests are really reporting what is claimed, and we also believe there are several types of I.Q.  And, most importantly, we think we're pretty dumb, and we'll be the first to tell you that. If we have been mistaken for being intelligent it's because we read a lot and seem to remember odd trivial things such as DeLaval invented the rocket nozzle or Bucephalus was the name of Alexander the Great's horse.  But as George Bernard Shaw claimed about himself, we don't seem to remember things that may be practical unless they interest us, and not much that is practical has ever interested us.
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Jay Humphrey

 
JAY HUMPHREY--This guy used to be on the City Council several years ago and now he's a frequent critic of the good Councilmembers who are straightening out the city from the screw ups of past Councils.

Last night, Humphrey whined because Colin McCarthy had written a piece in the Daily Pilot that pointed out that Perry Valentine, a former city employee, gets a nice pension, and that Valentine now always seems to be critical of the good Councilmembers and their attempts to get pension costs under control. It sounded to us as though Humphrey was calling for the Council to somehow stop McCarthy's free speech rights.
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Perry Valentine

 PERRY VALENTINE--This is the guy mentioned above who used to work for the city but who is now retired and who gets a nice pension.
At last night's meeting, Valentine suggested that columns appearing in the Daily Pilot under the names of some of the good Councilmembers may actually be ghost written, and Valentine, by golly, doesn't want his tax money going to a ghost writer. At a previous meeting, Valentine absurdly requested that Councilmember Steve Mensinger recuse himself from a youth sports matter because Mensinger and Mensinger's wife are active in youth sports and have been for many years. The CM PRESS then went to the podium at that earlier meeting and pointed out how silly this recusal request was and how citizens of Costa Mesa should want our politicians to be involved in the life of this city, and that if Mensinger were to recuse himself from all his volunteer work in the city that he'd be recused most of the time.  In the end, Mensinger did not have to recuse himself. [CM PRESS Stock photo]


Colin McCarthy

  COLIN MCCARTHY--On the Planning Commission and also the head of the Costa Mesa Taxpayers Association. One of the good guys who wants Costa Mesa to be improved.  Expect him to run for the City Council this year.
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Geoff West and Billy Folsom

GEOFF WEST & BILLY FOLSOM--Billy Folsom works for the city as a mechanic and he mostly works on police cars and police motorcycles as far as we can tell. [CM PRESS photo taken 1/3/12]

He and Geoff West appear to be good friends.

Folsom was Bill Perkins' campaign manager in a failed  City Council attempt  by Perkins a few years ago. Perkins no longer lives in Costa Mesa.

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Those are our opinions.  Thanks for reading them.

CM PRESS # 730

DON'T GORE MY OX, GORE HIS OR HERS INSTEAD

Good morning, boys and girls.  A new play--called The Prospect of The 19th Street Bridge--is unfolding before our eyes on the proscenium stage that is Costa Mesa.

Let's talk a little about this play and some of the characters, along with what might be their motives. 

You do know that people have motives for their actions, don't you boys and girls?

Entering stage left is Eleanor Egan, let's call her Ms. Eleanor, who is the wife of Mr. Tom, who we wrote about recently after Mr. Tom penned a rambling, bizarro, book length column about the school district. We don't know where Mr. Tom is now...what's that you say?  No, we don't think Ms. Eleanor has him locked in the attic.

Ms. Eleanor has written a column against the proposed 19th Street bridge [HERE].  Thankfully, Ms. Eleanor, unlike Mr. Tom, doesn't take us all the way back to the 1800's in her column and she pretty much stays on point.

There are things that need to be made clear about the 19th Street bridge and some of the players who either already are or who will be involved in this play over the next months and years that Ms. Eleanor did not make clear in her column.

But first, a minor geography refresher.  There are presently two bridges connecting Costa Mesa to Huntington Beach. One is on Adams and  the other is on Victoria.  The traffic on Adams and Victoria can be pretty bad as a result.  Our guess is that the folks who live just off those streets would like to see some traffic relief. 

How could that be made to happen?  Why, open a new bridge someplace else, not near where they live--say on 19th Street--to bleed off some of those cars.

Not really John Moorlach
or Wendy Leece.

But, we're getting ahead of ourselves. We wonder, why is it that Ms. Eleanor doesn't want the bridge on 19th Street?

Is it because she's concerned about the Westside or the city generally, and out of the goodness of her heart she wants to fight that darn bridge as though she's channeling Carrie Nation, and the bridge is a subconscious symbol of demon rum and the men of the town are being led astray by the demon bridge and ignoring their families? And, we ask breathlessly, is Ms. Eleanor about to wield an ax to chop that evil bridge down even before it is built? 

Well, maybe. But, could it be more simple--but a lot less visually interesting--than that?  Could it be because Ms. Eleanor and Mr. Tom live on the Westside Bluffs  near 19th Street? If the bridge is built, it'll be close to their home. They may even be able to see it from their back yard. So, of course, not being trolls, they don't want the bridge built.

And, Ms. Wendy (Leece) also lives near 19th Street, so she'll be against the bridge also. Yes, dear theatre goers, the Dead End Kids don't want that bridge near their dead end.

However, Supervisor John Moorlach, (Mr. John) who is the big suit pushing for the bridge, and who lives way over in the Mesa Verde Collection just off Adams Ave. may argue that the bridge will end the, er, dead end nature of the Westside and with traffic flowing through the area, the Westside will improve. 

Is Mr. John convinced that the 19th Street bridge will be great for the Westside and Costa Mesa, so that's why he wants it?  Are his motives pure and selfless? Maybe. 

But, it may also be that Mr. John figures if there's a 19th Street bridge it may cut the traffic on Adams (near his home, remember) and also with a 19th Street bridge way over on the Westside, the prospect of a Gisler Street bridge (also in Mesa Verde) will be gone forever.

But wait, there's more.  Councilmember Eric Bever  (Mr. Eric), who has not yet taken the stage, lives just off Victoria Street, and if a 19th Street  bridge is built, Mr. Eric may believe that will take away some of the traffic on Victoria, so expect him to have a part in this play as well.

There are more actors in this play--such as Jim Righeimer and Steve Mensinger (who both live in Mesa Verde)--but their interests and motives may be more involved in building political capital with Mesa Verde residents and Mr. John and the big GOP suits, by supporting a 19th Street bridge to lessen Adams traffic and completely killing off the prospect of a Gisler Street bridge than them being personally affected one way or another with a new bridge.

And then there's the no small matter of Banning Ranch and possible motives relating to it.  But, that's in Act II.

And, there's even more.  There's CALTRANS that can, it seems, overrule everyone, like the congressional base closing commission, and put in a freeway right through your bedroom if they choose without so much as saying "May we please."

More will happen on the stage, dear readers, before the final curtain, but what the CM PRESS wants to hear are objective arguments pro and con, with facts and examples backing them up, about what is best for the Westside and the City.

We don't care about what is best for this or that individual or what is best for Banning Ranch or Newport Beach or commuters from Huntington Beach. 

We care about what is best for the Westside and Costa Mesa (in that order); and if the rest of Costa Mesa must bear a little more traffic to improve the Westside, then we come down in favor of the Westside--which we have always considered key to improving all of Costa Mesa.

We know that everyone whose ox is about to be gored will try to have someone else's ox gored instead. Such is human nature.

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CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT

The CM PRESS may be there with a few comments suggesting the Council needs to make a minor course correction or two.
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CM PRESS # 729

COLOR BLIND IDEOLOGY IS A FORM OF RACISM

It sounds as though the author of the above column has been reading my stuff. 

Of course, this kind of truth about race just drives the Good Whites even more nuts than they are already. 

They just don't dare talk about race because, as I've written many times over the years, and as the author of the above piece now states again, the Good Whites treat dark skin as though it's a large wart on someone's face or some other birth defect that they must ignore and not stare at.

Go ahead, you Good Whites, read the above column written by a non-White and see if this finally frees you from your  mental prison which probably even makes you a little nervous about asking for white paint if the paint salesman is Black and there are many Black people in the paint store.

We imagine a Good White fearing that something like the following might happen...

"Oh, you want WHITE paint do you?" asks the Black salesman at the top of his voice. "Are you in the KKK?  Maybe you're a white supremacist or a Nazi.  Hey everybody, this WHITE person is asking for WHITE paint.  So, why don't you like BLACK paint? Hmmmmm?  Exactly how WHITE do you want the WHITE paint?  I bet you want it to be PURE WHITE."
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HOW IT ALL BEGAN...

According to some Christians...

God created everything six thousand years ago and there is no evolution.

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According to science...

13.7 billion years ago--Big Bang. Start of our universe.
4.5 billion years ago--Earth forms from spinning cloud of stellar dust.
3.8 billion years ago--First DNA molecule.
330 million years ago--First reptiles.
220 million yeas ago--First true mammals.
2.5 million years ago--Genus Homos.
200,000 years ago--Modern humans.
50,000 years ago--A few humans leave Africa for Europe and Asia and keep evolving.
20,000 years ago--White people begin emerging in Europe. *
10,000-6,000 years ago--Blue eye mutation appears among White people in Europe.
5,000 years ago--White people become dominant and virtually only type in Europe. White skin with blood vessels closer to the surface gave them a survival advantage in the less sunny regions (it's also why they blush) because they could produce more Vitamin D and thus avoid early death and low birthrates due to rickets.
4,000 years ago--Recorded history begins.
Today--Evolution continues.

*Scientists now believe that a tiny mutation in gene slc24a5, located on the long leg of chromosome 15 at position 21.1 was a major reason for the emergence of white skin. This mutation became the norm in Europe 5,000 to 12,000 years ago.  This gene has primary alleles that differ in only one nucleotide; changing the 111th amino acid from alanine to threonine.  In White European descended peoples, the threonine form is found in from 98.7% to 100% of the population, while in Africans, East Asians and American Indians from 93% to 100% of the populations have the alanine form.
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BANKS CLOSED TODAY BUT NEWPORT-MESA SCHOOLS OPEN

It's the calendar.
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CM PRESS # 728

COUNCIL GOING TOO FAST?  NOPE, IT'S GOING TOO SLOW!

We keep seeing and hearing comments from the slow thinking Wendyites who say that the City Council is going too fast. 

We disagree.

We think the Council is going too slow, and especially on the Westside.

And, we're tired of hearing some Councilmembers bragging about fixing potholes as though that's improvement.  Folks, that isn't improvement, that's routine maintenance.

We want to see genuine improvement.  We want to see major changes.  We want to see a revitalized Westside.

If you think you've noticed  our tone getting sharper regarding the Council, you're right.  The honeymoon is over.  The Council has had plenty of time to get things moving and to get their priorities straightened out.  Now, we want to see action.

Don't even imply that fixing potholes is improvement.  That's crap.  That'd be like saying  sweeping your kitchen floor is a kitchen remodel.

And, as we've said many times before, we want a smaller and more efficient government, not a bloated monstrosity.

So, what is the Council doing?  It's talking about laying off the employees who actually do some work that we can see, and is porking up the executive offices with high paid paper pushers who will smile and say the politic things.

To be clear.  We agree with right-sizing government.  We agree that many jobs can and should be outsourced.  We agree that staff should be cut back (hopefully by attrition and hiring freezes). 

What we don't agree with is claiming that government is being right-sized because the blue collar workers are being cut, while the executive suites are being packed to the brim with expensive paper pushers.
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