MS: THREE BLACK MALES WANTED IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 21-YEAR-OLD COLLEGE STUDENT IN DORM--NO RACIAL DESCRIPTION GIVEN OF VICTIM
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WHITE WOMEN CAN JUMP
Video and article above on Russian Women's Basketball team.
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
CM PRESS # 806
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| Jim Fitzpatrick |
The CM PRESS has been writing about the District for years. Just type in "Costa Mesa Sanitary District" in the search window on this blog for many of our columns about the District.
HERE'S just one of those columns we wrote. This is from CM PRESS # 167 of June 30, 2007.
If you click on the column headline above you'll see the latest news about this in the Daily Pilot, and if you scroll down to comments you'll read a negative comment from someone who calls himself/herself GOP Nutcase.
GOP Nutcase (apt name for this person) is a coward who likes to call names while hiding his/her identity. He/she is one of the dimwits who opposes just about everything that the people trying to improve Costa Mesa are doing. Our guess is that he/she is a member of the small crowd of malcontents who show up at City Council meetings all the time demanding that Costa Mesa citizens pay our workers $ 300,000 to hold a hose. GOP Nutcase may even be a union worker and a Costa Mesa employee.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
CM PRESS # 805
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| Karin Ahlf |
UPDATE: Well, there is no update.
We're still waiting for Karin Ahlf to tell us how she knows that "The majority of the residents in our city requested that the charter be placed on the November ballot."
You see, we know that CM PRESS readers have probably figured out that Ms. Ahlf--a constant critic of the good Councilmembers and just about anything they do--may be the real brains behind the antis---since she knows what the majority of residents want. Thus, what she has to say is important.
So, Ms. Ahlf, please let us know how you were able to figure out what the majority of the residents of our city want. As we wrote before, if you convince us that you have it right, we can then request that the election be called off and we'll all save time and money.
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HOMELESS BLACK SEX OFFENDER RELEASED ON THE STREETS OF NEWPORT-MESA
Photo at above Daily Pilot link.
Will he be hanging out near the library and Lions Park?
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OK: White couple married 65 years now parted because a Black home invader raped and murdered the 85-year-old wife and put her 90-year-old husband in the hospital
Includes photos of the White victims and the Black attacker.
We'll bet you didn't hear anything about this. Why? Because one of the ways the press tries to keep you stupid about all the attacks on Whites by Blacks is to try to keep such stories confined to a local area.
The result of this is that more Whites are naive and become victims of Black attackers.
Know the truth about anti-White race hate and attacks and you and yours will be safer in Third World America.
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IL: WHITE GIRL ATTACKED BY BLACKS WHO TELL HER "This is our territory, White girl."
As usual, local cops try to play down the racial hate nature of the crime and, in this case, call it a "kid thing," even though one of the attackers appeared to be in her 20's.
Reverse the races and this would be national news.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
CM PRESS # 804
FREQUENT CRITIC OF THE GOOD COUNCILMEMBERS CLAIMS TO KNOW WHAT THE MAJORITY OF COSTA MESA RESIDENTS WANT
Below is a comment from Ms. Karin Ahlf, who often speaks at City Council meetings.
You can read other comments and the piece in the DAILY PILOT [HERE] that prompted Ms. Ahlf to share her knowledge about what the majority of Costa Mesa residents want.
Perhaps we can just forget about voting in the future to save time and money and we can just have Ms. Ahlf tell us what most of us want.
But, then again, just before we chuck all future elections, perhaps Ms. Ahlf can tell us a little of her methodology in making her determination. [Our comments are in red brackets]
Send us your comments Ms. Ahlf.
Katrina and Mr. Stephens will be remembered as trying to stop the insanity and waste! [What insanity and what waste?]
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WE IMAGINE A CONVERSATION ON THE ALTERNATE URTH:
[Psst. There really isn't an alternate Urth. This is like, er, a parody or something like that.]
"I'm against the charter because it doesn't give me a new TV or put a chicken in my pot.
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| kwahlf |
Below is a comment from Ms. Karin Ahlf, who often speaks at City Council meetings.
You can read other comments and the piece in the DAILY PILOT [HERE] that prompted Ms. Ahlf to share her knowledge about what the majority of Costa Mesa residents want.
Perhaps we can just forget about voting in the future to save time and money and we can just have Ms. Ahlf tell us what most of us want.
But, then again, just before we chuck all future elections, perhaps Ms. Ahlf can tell us a little of her methodology in making her determination. [Our comments are in red brackets]
Send us your comments Ms. Ahlf.
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kwahlf at 6:06 PM March 21, 2012
cmsanity-The majority of the residents in our city requested that the charter be placed on the November ballot. [They did? That'd be about 55,000 +- people. We must have missed them asking for this.]
Putting it on the June ballot will cost the CM taxpayers $30,000.00 more. [Cheap at four times the price to get this city back on the right track.] Does that matter to you? [Rightsizing the local government sure matters to us at the CM PRESS.] The charter is for Righeimer's benefit, not the residents. [How does it benefit Jim Righeimer? How does it not benefit the residents?]
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WE IMAGINE A CONVERSATION ON THE ALTERNATE URTH:
[Psst. There really isn't an alternate Urth. This is like, er, a parody or something like that.]
Lets listen in on a member of CM FROGS, the latest astro-turf group of lefties, who want to keep control of Costa Messy in Sacrament City and who want to pay $300,000 to employees so these employees can live better than the people who actually live in Costa Messy and who pay them.
"I'm against the charter because it doesn't give me a new TV or put a chicken in my pot.
"How do the BOYS on the City Council explain that? Hmmmm? Where does it say anything about a TV or a chicken in my pot in the charter? It doesn't! The BOYS on the City Council are trying to pull a fast one on us.
"The BOYS are trying to shove the charter down our throats instead of letting us discuss it for a couple of years and including things to protect us from them--like TVs and chickens in our pots. And, they have the nerve to pretend they're transparent. They need to slow down."
"Remember our rallying cry: 'In Windy We Trust.'"
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This is a story that is being repeated in city after city in the U.S. and even with the press trying to hide the anti-White nature of the attacks, many Whites are still waking up and seeing through the fog of lies to the reality of the attacks and are avoiding areas with large minority populations and taking their money elsewhere. This is causing the areas that Whites avoid to become even more Third World.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
CM PRESS # 803
HEY KIDS, GET IN ON THE LATEST CRAZE--MISINTERPRET WHAT JIM RIGHEIMER HAS SAID AND THEN WRITE TO THE DAILY PILOT OR SPEAK TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN TO YOU AND TELL THEM THAT YOU'RE NOT A UNION MEMBER
If you've been following the local scene and have half a brain, you'll know that Mayor Pro Tem Righeimer has indicated that in his opinion the unions (or as some like to label themselves: associations) are the driving force behind many of the antis.
He has not said that all the pawns showing up at meetings to say the same things over and over are union members, er, association members, or that these pawns are even fully aware of the union, ah, association connections.
Many, but not all, of these people are just being used by the unions associations. Many of them don't even know what they're supposed to be mad about. Something about a helicopter, or is it layoffs, no, maybe its about a charter (whatever in the world that is), or maybe the Council hasn't appointed fifteen person committees to decide whether or not to paint a curb.
The antis want us all to be against rightsizing government and taking some of the power away from Sacramento and giving it to those of us who live in Costa Mesa and they want us to be against getting the best price on labor, goods and services that we can get.
Yes, we should all wave red flags (or pieces of colored paper) in the air and yell: Workers of the World (some of whom make more than $300,000 per year) Unite! Fight the bourgeoisie! Support the proletariat!
Hey, wait a minute. You mean to tell me that some members of the proletariat make $ 300,000 per year for climbing ladders and holding hoses? Why, they make more than the bourgeoisie. And, you mean many of them live in expensive homes in Newport Beach? There's something wrong here.
The workers have become the bosses and push the elected officials around and tell them how many people to hire and what to pay them and what benefits to give them, and the elected officials can do little but obey.
This is screwy. We didn't vote for City employees--many of whom don't even live here and thus can't vote here--to run this city.
We voted for our fellow citizens of Costa Mesa to work part time on the City Council on our behalf, and we pay them a very small amount of money for this service and we expect them to hold regular jobs to support themselves and their families.
It's time we restore the natural order and put the elected officials back in charge. They're the ones who have a fiduciary responsibility to the voters. They're the ones who have to act like adults and not give away our money when some creeps stomp their feet on the floor or call them names to try to intimidate them.
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BLACK COLLEGE GIRL GOES CRAZY IN CLASS AND THREATENS TO KILL WHITE PEOPLE
Caught on video.
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CM FIREFIGHTERSUNION ASSOCIATION SAYS...
"We didn't become firefighters in order to play politics."
That was one of the things we saw in a slick brochure put out by theunion association that was in the rear of Council Chambers last night.
Well, if you don't want to play politics, then stay the hell out of Costa Mesa politics. Stop spending thousands of dollars each election year in trying to elect scumbag political puppets who will repay you by giving you more of our money. Act like professionals and do your job and then go home to your own cities and leave the politics of Costa Mesa alone.
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**19th Street Sign project will move forward but not as contemplated in the staff report. Instead, Mayor Bever will marshal the efforts and will, with the help of citizens, come up with a design and hopefully a local fabricator to make a sign to help re-brand this street and perhaps the whole Westside.
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If you've been following the local scene and have half a brain, you'll know that Mayor Pro Tem Righeimer has indicated that in his opinion the unions (or as some like to label themselves: associations) are the driving force behind many of the antis.
He has not said that all the pawns showing up at meetings to say the same things over and over are union members, er, association members, or that these pawns are even fully aware of the union, ah, association connections.
Many, but not all, of these people are just being used by the
The antis want us all to be against rightsizing government and taking some of the power away from Sacramento and giving it to those of us who live in Costa Mesa and they want us to be against getting the best price on labor, goods and services that we can get.
Yes, we should all wave red flags (or pieces of colored paper) in the air and yell: Workers of the World (some of whom make more than $300,000 per year) Unite! Fight the bourgeoisie! Support the proletariat!
Hey, wait a minute. You mean to tell me that some members of the proletariat make $ 300,000 per year for climbing ladders and holding hoses? Why, they make more than the bourgeoisie. And, you mean many of them live in expensive homes in Newport Beach? There's something wrong here.
The workers have become the bosses and push the elected officials around and tell them how many people to hire and what to pay them and what benefits to give them, and the elected officials can do little but obey.
This is screwy. We didn't vote for City employees--many of whom don't even live here and thus can't vote here--to run this city.
We voted for our fellow citizens of Costa Mesa to work part time on the City Council on our behalf, and we pay them a very small amount of money for this service and we expect them to hold regular jobs to support themselves and their families.
It's time we restore the natural order and put the elected officials back in charge. They're the ones who have a fiduciary responsibility to the voters. They're the ones who have to act like adults and not give away our money when some creeps stomp their feet on the floor or call them names to try to intimidate them.
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BLACK COLLEGE GIRL GOES CRAZY IN CLASS AND THREATENS TO KILL WHITE PEOPLE
Caught on video.
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CM FIREFIGHTERS
"We didn't become firefighters in order to play politics."
That was one of the things we saw in a slick brochure put out by the
Well, if you don't want to play politics, then stay the hell out of Costa Mesa politics. Stop spending thousands of dollars each election year in trying to elect scumbag political puppets who will repay you by giving you more of our money. Act like professionals and do your job and then go home to your own cities and leave the politics of Costa Mesa alone.
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REPORT ON LAST NIGHT'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING
**Public Comments will still be near the front of the meeting after Mayor Bever decided to keep them there, so long as the City Council meetings stay orderly. He reserved the right to trail them to the end of the meeting on a meeting by meeting basis if he wishes.
**Urban Master Plan screening request for five, three story detached homes at 1974 Meyer Place was heard and commented on by the Council and some in the audience including the CM PRESS. We believe this project is underparked and we suggested that the developer should build one less unit. Councilmember Mensinger disagreed and said the problem was not underparking but people using their garages for purposes other than parking their cars. OUR POSITION: Don't approve these projects on the basis that people should park their cars in their garage, but on what really happens. The reality is that neighbors around such projects are going to suffer because of increased parking on the street.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
CM PRESS # 802
MEDIA LABELS HISPANIC MAN WHITE IN SHOOTING OF BLACK TEEN IN FLA.
Much more acceptable to blame Whitey than to tell the truth.
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COURT MAY RULE TODAY ON CHARTER ON JUNE BALLOT OR NOT
[UPDATE from woman who channels Lucy's red hair dye HERE.]
One never wants to try to outguess how the court will rule, however, we think there's a high probability that the charter will go on the June ballot.
Here's why. Just from the little we've read about this situation, we think a reasonable argument for the good faith screw-up has been put forward, i.e. a miscommunication between the Registrar of Voters and Costa Mesa's City Clerk in which the latter believed that because a portion of the charter deadline was extended, that the whole deadline was extended.
Had there not been that extension, the City Clerk probably would have filed on time. But, had she not, then the court would more than likely rule that it wouldn't go on the June ballot.
Key words are "extension," "miscommunication," "good faith" and "reasonable."
We'll just have to wait and see how the court actually rules. We'll let you know how it turns out.
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THE SKY IS FALLING IN COSTA MESA AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Say, given the fact that it's the usual screwball few who waste time by saying the same things over and over at Public Comments, maybe sending them to a tree in Fairview Park early in the morning isn't such a bad idea.
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Much more acceptable to blame Whitey than to tell the truth.
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COURT MAY RULE TODAY ON CHARTER ON JUNE BALLOT OR NOT
[UPDATE from woman who channels Lucy's red hair dye HERE.]
One never wants to try to outguess how the court will rule, however, we think there's a high probability that the charter will go on the June ballot.
Here's why. Just from the little we've read about this situation, we think a reasonable argument for the good faith screw-up has been put forward, i.e. a miscommunication between the Registrar of Voters and Costa Mesa's City Clerk in which the latter believed that because a portion of the charter deadline was extended, that the whole deadline was extended.
Had there not been that extension, the City Clerk probably would have filed on time. But, had she not, then the court would more than likely rule that it wouldn't go on the June ballot.
Key words are "extension," "miscommunication," "good faith" and "reasonable."
We'll just have to wait and see how the court actually rules. We'll let you know how it turns out.
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THE SKY IS FALLING IN COSTA MESA AGAIN!!!!!!!!!Yawn.
The shrill, neurotic Chicken Littles are at it again. It seems the City Council may decide to move the Nuts at Night, er, Public Comments section of the City Council meetings to the end of the agenda instead of at the start.
In the above linked Daily Pilot story about this latest apocalyptic move (to hear the Chicken Littles speak of it) by the City Council, you'll see the same half-wits whining about how this is an attack on their First Amendment rights. Actually, it isn't. Public Comments at the start, in the middle, at the end, or at any other time during the meeting, preserves First Amendment rights in a reasonable, time, place and manner way.
Now, if the Council put in a rule that these nutcakes who are whining about the change had to go give their comments at three in the morning, while standing on their heads, on the top of a tree in Fairview Park, well that would be a violation.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
CM PRESS # 801
RUSSIAN MARINES ENTER SYRIA
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NATURAL INDIVIDUALISM VS. BIG GOVERNMENT CONTROL
It was cold in Costa Mesa yesterday, so we at the CM PRESS put on warm jackets when we left the HQ.
Out on the streets of Costa Mesa, we saw many other individuals all wearing warm jackets.
How did all of us know to wear warm jackets? Had we received a directive from Sacramento or D.C. to put on warm jackets? Were we somehow all tied in with each other via mental telepathy? Nope and nope. We, all of us as individuals, individually decided to put on warm jackets at about the same time.
Why? It's because all organisms, including human beings, seek comfort. We automatically put on warm jackets because they made us more comfortable than we would have been had we not put them on. This was so because our senses (which we have so we can survive) sent signals to our brains letting us know that being warm was a better tactic for survival as individuals than being cold.
So, we who live in Costa Mesa were the ones to decide on what was right for us.
We, each one of us as individuals, took care of ourselves. We didn't wait for someone else to tell us what to do. We just did what was best for us personally. Was that selfish of us? Of course not. A basic principle of individualism and survival is that each of us should do what is best for ourselves so long as we don't harm others.
This principle of individualism then spirals out in ever increasing circles.
First, you must take care of yourself. Then, you move to your family. Then, to your neighbors. Then to your neighborhood. Then, to your city, your county, your state, your nation, your planet,your solar system. And, there's no false altruism in any of this, when it is done with reason and understanding, because, generally, as you help others in these ever increasing circles, you're helping your own survival.
The problem comes in if you leap over the smaller circles to help others in the larger, more distant circles while sacrificing those in the smaller circles closer to yourself.
But, to fully understand, you have to go deeper still. When you take care of yourself as an individual what are you really taking care of? The answer is that you are taking care of the particular and unique genetic code that you carry and which made you the person you are.
When you put on that warm jacket, you were protecting your genetic code. It is that which must survive and which "wants" to survive. Now, it's not as though your genetic code is some sort of entity sitting inside of you and you are just a robot. The code is one with you and you are one with it. You are its means of survival and it is your means of survival. You and it are indivisible.
It all begins at these deeper levels and spirals up to our fully manifested selves--the person we see in the mirror--but if we understand a little of these deeper things, we begin to see the natural way to live and we begin to see what is important and what is not important in life and we begin to see why it is better to have local control of the conditions that affect us.
If we had waited for a directive from Sacramento or D.C. to put on our coats, many of us would have been uncomfortable and many probably would have come down with colds. This would have put us in danger of not surviving, which means our genetic code might not survive. So, the internal program created by the genetic code, kicked in and "we" decided with our "free will" that it would be more comfortable if we wore a warm coat.
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NATURAL INDIVIDUALISM VS. BIG GOVERNMENT CONTROL
It was cold in Costa Mesa yesterday, so we at the CM PRESS put on warm jackets when we left the HQ.
Out on the streets of Costa Mesa, we saw many other individuals all wearing warm jackets.
How did all of us know to wear warm jackets? Had we received a directive from Sacramento or D.C. to put on warm jackets? Were we somehow all tied in with each other via mental telepathy? Nope and nope. We, all of us as individuals, individually decided to put on warm jackets at about the same time.
Why? It's because all organisms, including human beings, seek comfort. We automatically put on warm jackets because they made us more comfortable than we would have been had we not put them on. This was so because our senses (which we have so we can survive) sent signals to our brains letting us know that being warm was a better tactic for survival as individuals than being cold.
So, we who live in Costa Mesa were the ones to decide on what was right for us.
We, each one of us as individuals, took care of ourselves. We didn't wait for someone else to tell us what to do. We just did what was best for us personally. Was that selfish of us? Of course not. A basic principle of individualism and survival is that each of us should do what is best for ourselves so long as we don't harm others.
This principle of individualism then spirals out in ever increasing circles.
First, you must take care of yourself. Then, you move to your family. Then, to your neighbors. Then to your neighborhood. Then, to your city, your county, your state, your nation, your planet,your solar system. And, there's no false altruism in any of this, when it is done with reason and understanding, because, generally, as you help others in these ever increasing circles, you're helping your own survival.
The problem comes in if you leap over the smaller circles to help others in the larger, more distant circles while sacrificing those in the smaller circles closer to yourself.
But, to fully understand, you have to go deeper still. When you take care of yourself as an individual what are you really taking care of? The answer is that you are taking care of the particular and unique genetic code that you carry and which made you the person you are.
When you put on that warm jacket, you were protecting your genetic code. It is that which must survive and which "wants" to survive. Now, it's not as though your genetic code is some sort of entity sitting inside of you and you are just a robot. The code is one with you and you are one with it. You are its means of survival and it is your means of survival. You and it are indivisible.
It all begins at these deeper levels and spirals up to our fully manifested selves--the person we see in the mirror--but if we understand a little of these deeper things, we begin to see the natural way to live and we begin to see what is important and what is not important in life and we begin to see why it is better to have local control of the conditions that affect us.
If we had waited for a directive from Sacramento or D.C. to put on our coats, many of us would have been uncomfortable and many probably would have come down with colds. This would have put us in danger of not surviving, which means our genetic code might not survive. So, the internal program created by the genetic code, kicked in and "we" decided with our "free will" that it would be more comfortable if we wore a warm coat.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
CM PRESS # 800
LEFTY LA TIMES PUFFS BLACK KNOWLEDGE BOWL
Suppose there had been a White Knowledge Bowl; what would you be reading?
You know. You'd be reading how it promotes White supremacy and hatred and how it shouldn't be allowed. And, sadly, many of those complaining would be lefty Whites who are so brainwashed and so full of self-loathing, that they'd be in the forefront of those complaining about a White Knowledge Bowl.
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WRONG SIGN, WRONG PRICE, WRONG FABRICATOR
At Tuesday's City Council meeting, the Council will be asked to approve a sign for the W. 19th Street entrance. LINK
You will recall, that it was the CM PRESS that went to the podium a couple of months ago and asked the Council to put a sign at that location. You will also recall that the Council then asked Staff to proceed with the project.
So, what has Staff come up with after all this time? The design that you see at the above LINK.
We're not happy about this sign.
Here's why. It doesn't say Westside to us. It's too sterile. We don't see artsy, creative, industrial, funky, slightly bohemian Westside so come on over and do some shopping in a more free form area of Costa Mesa.
Instead, we see Irvine.
Also, at $ 15,000, it's too expensive. We'd really like to see how the sign company justifies that price on a cost of labor/materials + profit basis. And, it appears that there was no competitive bid.
In addition, the sign isn't being made by a local artist or company. The sign company is in Anaheim.
And, instead of natural rust, the sign company wants a faux rust finish. Huh? We're right near the ocean. Why not use cheaper materials that will rust naturally and which are used in some of the industrial businesses on the Westside right now?
Lastly, and as far as we know, local artists weren't consulted on the design, the Cultural Arts Committee wasn't consulted, the Planning Commission wasn't consulted, the City Council wasn't consulted--and, remember, Mayor Bever is an artist! And, the CM PRESS wasn't consulted--remember, we came up with the friggin' idea in the first place!!
Instead of this sign, we'd prefer something designed and fabricated in Costa Mesa and at a reasonable cost.
Now, we're not artists at the CM PRESS but to prime the pump, we offer this suggestion for a sign:
Two metal pipes or I-beams 2" to 4" OD, about 3'to 4' tall with a sign made of 1/4" to 1/2" rough cut metal plate suspended between them with "19 WEST" flame cut through the plate with a unique font.* The pipes and metal plate would be unfinished so they would rust naturally.
This would be fabricated by a firm on the Westside.
Then, behind the sign on the median, the present plants would be replaced with plants identical or similar to the ones you can see on Superior as you cross the border into Newport Beach.
But, that's just our idea. You may have many ideas of your own. If so, let the Council know this Tuesday, before we end up with a sign that costs too much and which doesn't rebrand the Westside as you may think it should be rebranded.
Remember, Costa Mesa isn't one homogenized city. West 19th Street shouldn't try to be another E. 17th Street or South Coast Metro. It should have its own artsy identity.
*The choice of the unique font for "19 West" is important as it will then be used to help establish a new identity for the whole area and tie everything together.
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ANOTHER INDIAN TRIBE IN THE NEWS AS IT TRIES TO UNDO MISCEGENATION THAT HAS LED SO MANY OTHER TRIBES ON THE PATH TO THEIR OWN GENOCIDE
Genes make you an Indian or a non-Indian. It's a simple truth of nature.
Even though there may be profit and other motives involved in this great boot-out, the end result may be the recreation of Indians as they were before their blood got watered down. This may slow down or end the bedroom genocide that they've engaged in for years. Clearly, there is now an incentive for Indians to marry their own and produce children who are also full Indian rather than marrying non-Indians.
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LINK TO IRISH MASSACHUSETTS
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Suppose there had been a White Knowledge Bowl; what would you be reading?
You know. You'd be reading how it promotes White supremacy and hatred and how it shouldn't be allowed. And, sadly, many of those complaining would be lefty Whites who are so brainwashed and so full of self-loathing, that they'd be in the forefront of those complaining about a White Knowledge Bowl.
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WRONG SIGN, WRONG PRICE, WRONG FABRICATOR
At Tuesday's City Council meeting, the Council will be asked to approve a sign for the W. 19th Street entrance. LINK
You will recall, that it was the CM PRESS that went to the podium a couple of months ago and asked the Council to put a sign at that location. You will also recall that the Council then asked Staff to proceed with the project.
So, what has Staff come up with after all this time? The design that you see at the above LINK.
We're not happy about this sign.
Here's why. It doesn't say Westside to us. It's too sterile. We don't see artsy, creative, industrial, funky, slightly bohemian Westside so come on over and do some shopping in a more free form area of Costa Mesa.
Instead, we see Irvine.
Also, at $ 15,000, it's too expensive. We'd really like to see how the sign company justifies that price on a cost of labor/materials + profit basis. And, it appears that there was no competitive bid.
In addition, the sign isn't being made by a local artist or company. The sign company is in Anaheim.
And, instead of natural rust, the sign company wants a faux rust finish. Huh? We're right near the ocean. Why not use cheaper materials that will rust naturally and which are used in some of the industrial businesses on the Westside right now?
Lastly, and as far as we know, local artists weren't consulted on the design, the Cultural Arts Committee wasn't consulted, the Planning Commission wasn't consulted, the City Council wasn't consulted--and, remember, Mayor Bever is an artist! And, the CM PRESS wasn't consulted--remember, we came up with the friggin' idea in the first place!!
Instead of this sign, we'd prefer something designed and fabricated in Costa Mesa and at a reasonable cost.
Now, we're not artists at the CM PRESS but to prime the pump, we offer this suggestion for a sign:
Two metal pipes or I-beams 2" to 4" OD, about 3'to 4' tall with a sign made of 1/4" to 1/2" rough cut metal plate suspended between them with "19 WEST" flame cut through the plate with a unique font.* The pipes and metal plate would be unfinished so they would rust naturally.
This would be fabricated by a firm on the Westside.
Then, behind the sign on the median, the present plants would be replaced with plants identical or similar to the ones you can see on Superior as you cross the border into Newport Beach.
But, that's just our idea. You may have many ideas of your own. If so, let the Council know this Tuesday, before we end up with a sign that costs too much and which doesn't rebrand the Westside as you may think it should be rebranded.
Remember, Costa Mesa isn't one homogenized city. West 19th Street shouldn't try to be another E. 17th Street or South Coast Metro. It should have its own artsy identity.
*The choice of the unique font for "19 West" is important as it will then be used to help establish a new identity for the whole area and tie everything together.
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ANOTHER INDIAN TRIBE IN THE NEWS AS IT TRIES TO UNDO MISCEGENATION THAT HAS LED SO MANY OTHER TRIBES ON THE PATH TO THEIR OWN GENOCIDE
Genes make you an Indian or a non-Indian. It's a simple truth of nature.
Even though there may be profit and other motives involved in this great boot-out, the end result may be the recreation of Indians as they were before their blood got watered down. This may slow down or end the bedroom genocide that they've engaged in for years. Clearly, there is now an incentive for Indians to marry their own and produce children who are also full Indian rather than marrying non-Indians.
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LINK TO IRISH MASSACHUSETTS
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
CM PRESS # 799
OKAY, THE CITY CLERK SCREWED UP AND FILED THE CHARTER MEASURE LATE, NOW WHAT?
It's really no big deal and no matter how the judge rules, the charter proponents will be in a good position.
If the judge rules that it can go on the June ballot, the proponents have a good chance of getting it passed because the June election is going to be GOP heavy.
If the judge rules that it must wait until November, this gives the proponents a chance to retool by forming a citizen committee to draft a charter for November that will have a better chance of passing even with more libs showing up to vote. And, if it does have to wait until November, all the blowhards who are now complaining about "Righeimer's charter,"and saying they're not against charters, just THIS charter, will have little room left to grouse.
Either way, there's a high probability that Costa Mesa will become a charter city and will have more local control over our own destiny. And, if a charter doesn't pass either in June or in November, no big deal. Life will go on and most folks won't even know the difference.
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THE REAL HATE GROUP
More and more people are catching on to the SPLC.
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NEW RESEARCH FINDINGS: THE GOOD COUNCILMEMBERS MAY HAVE SHARPER MINDS THAN WENDY LEECE
You've probably heard Wendy Leece whine that the good Councilmembers seem to not always pay attention to speakers at City Council meetings. And, you may have seen Wendy staring intently at each speaker. You may also have noticed that Wendy's face is not exactly a poker face but seems to reflect the concerns of speakers. If they're mad, Wendy's face looks mad. If they're concerned, Wendy's face looks concerned. You get the idea. She'd be great in a silent movie.
Well, new research seems to indicate that people whose minds seem to wander (Wendy's complaint against the good Councilmembers, remember) have sharper minds than those whose minds don't wander.
But, if you've been paying attention, you probably already knew that the good Councilmembers are sharper than Wendy.
But, Wendy is special. She's a Costa Mesan. She supports all things Costa Mesa, ah, so why has she endorsed Leslie Daigle from Newport Beach over Allan Mansoor from Costa Mesa? You'll have to ask Wendy. No doubt she has some twisted logic to try to explain that. We have our own explanation: Wendy is a phony.
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LINK
Michael Millard b. abt 1797, Ireland
John Gahagan
Mary Cuff
JohnGallagher
Mary Flynn
Thomas Ellis
Bridget Crehan
Patrick Hannon
Mary Manning
Johanna Murphy
Mary Gahagan
Bridget Hannen
Catherine Ellis
Michael Wolfe Millard b. 1995 USA
The chain you started in Ireland is unbroken and you live on in the genes that have survived your departure. And, so we shall go forward with more links, expanding always, contracting never. One more wake, but ten more births.
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It's really no big deal and no matter how the judge rules, the charter proponents will be in a good position.
If the judge rules that it can go on the June ballot, the proponents have a good chance of getting it passed because the June election is going to be GOP heavy.
If the judge rules that it must wait until November, this gives the proponents a chance to retool by forming a citizen committee to draft a charter for November that will have a better chance of passing even with more libs showing up to vote. And, if it does have to wait until November, all the blowhards who are now complaining about "Righeimer's charter,"and saying they're not against charters, just THIS charter, will have little room left to grouse.
Either way, there's a high probability that Costa Mesa will become a charter city and will have more local control over our own destiny. And, if a charter doesn't pass either in June or in November, no big deal. Life will go on and most folks won't even know the difference.
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THE REAL HATE GROUP
More and more people are catching on to the SPLC.
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NEW RESEARCH FINDINGS: THE GOOD COUNCILMEMBERS MAY HAVE SHARPER MINDS THAN WENDY LEECE
You've probably heard Wendy Leece whine that the good Councilmembers seem to not always pay attention to speakers at City Council meetings. And, you may have seen Wendy staring intently at each speaker. You may also have noticed that Wendy's face is not exactly a poker face but seems to reflect the concerns of speakers. If they're mad, Wendy's face looks mad. If they're concerned, Wendy's face looks concerned. You get the idea. She'd be great in a silent movie.
Well, new research seems to indicate that people whose minds seem to wander (Wendy's complaint against the good Councilmembers, remember) have sharper minds than those whose minds don't wander.
But, if you've been paying attention, you probably already knew that the good Councilmembers are sharper than Wendy.
But, Wendy is special. She's a Costa Mesan. She supports all things Costa Mesa, ah, so why has she endorsed Leslie Daigle from Newport Beach over Allan Mansoor from Costa Mesa? You'll have to ask Wendy. No doubt she has some twisted logic to try to explain that. We have our own explanation: Wendy is a phony.
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Michael Millard b. abt 1797, Ireland
John Gahagan
Mary Cuff
JohnGallagher
Mary Flynn
Thomas Ellis
Bridget Crehan
Patrick Hannon
Mary Manning
Johanna Murphy
Mary Gahagan
Bridget Hannen
Catherine Ellis
Michael Wolfe Millard b. 1995 USA
The chain you started in Ireland is unbroken and you live on in the genes that have survived your departure. And, so we shall go forward with more links, expanding always, contracting never. One more wake, but ten more births.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
CM PRESS # 798
TOM EGAN HAS ANOTHER STUPID COLUMN IN THE DAILY PILOT
And, his latest stupid column has led to a comment from a reader who wants to deunify the NMUSD. That is, give Newport Beach a school district separate from Costa Mesa.
Call this what it is: White flight of a whole city that is tired of being linked to Costa Mesa--which doesn't seem to have the brains or political will to get rid of its ethnic ghettos and ghetto problems and which seems to revel in having a large population of illegal aliens in the city.
Folks, such a deunification of the district would be terrible for any Costa Mesa citizens who are upwardly mobile, as they would no longer be able to send their kids to Newport Beach schools and would have to send them to schools in Costa Mesa. The result: Massive White flight of young families out of Costa Mesa and the driving down of our city to Santa Ana levels.
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LEECE SHOWS HER TRUE LIB COLORS AGAIN
In Wendy We Don't Trust
Always confused Wendy Leece has now endorsed Leslie Daigle in Daigle's run to useat Allan Mansoor in the State Assembly. [Scroll way down in the above linked Daily Pilot article to read about Goslow Wendy and her latest backstabbing.]
Leece wouldn't even be on the Costa Mesa City Council had Mansoor not backed her.
Furthermore, Wendy is always saying that Costa Mesans are special. Be true to your school, and all that. Well, Daigle lives in Newport Beach, but Mansoor lives in Costa Mesa.
If you ever shake hands with Leece, be sure to count your fingers afterwards.
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KIDNAPPING AND ARREST IN COSTA MESA THURSDAY NIGHT
Unfortunately, that's all we can tell you. We got an email from the CMPD about this but the attachment with the details was missing. We'll fill you in as soon as we get those details.
UPDATE AND SYNOPSIS: Illegal alien ex-husband from Santa Ana was upset that his ex-wife and his two children were living with another man in the 3000 block of Fillmore. The illegal alien ex-husband and a friend went to that residence, beat up the man and then dropped him off in Huntington Beach. The illegal alien ex-husband (probably not the only illegal alien in this tale, but the only one so far identified as such) was subsequently arrested and is in the Costa Mesa jail.
Many police officers and lots of expense involved in this latest illegal alien story from Costa Mesa.
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| Tom Egan in checked shirt |
And, his latest stupid column has led to a comment from a reader who wants to deunify the NMUSD. That is, give Newport Beach a school district separate from Costa Mesa.
Call this what it is: White flight of a whole city that is tired of being linked to Costa Mesa--which doesn't seem to have the brains or political will to get rid of its ethnic ghettos and ghetto problems and which seems to revel in having a large population of illegal aliens in the city.
Folks, such a deunification of the district would be terrible for any Costa Mesa citizens who are upwardly mobile, as they would no longer be able to send their kids to Newport Beach schools and would have to send them to schools in Costa Mesa. The result: Massive White flight of young families out of Costa Mesa and the driving down of our city to Santa Ana levels.
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| Wendy Leece in a shadow |
In Wendy We Don't Trust
Always confused Wendy Leece has now endorsed Leslie Daigle in Daigle's run to useat Allan Mansoor in the State Assembly. [Scroll way down in the above linked Daily Pilot article to read about Goslow Wendy and her latest backstabbing.]
Leece wouldn't even be on the Costa Mesa City Council had Mansoor not backed her.
Furthermore, Wendy is always saying that Costa Mesans are special. Be true to your school, and all that. Well, Daigle lives in Newport Beach, but Mansoor lives in Costa Mesa.
If you ever shake hands with Leece, be sure to count your fingers afterwards.
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KIDNAPPING AND ARREST IN COSTA MESA THURSDAY NIGHT
Unfortunately, that's all we can tell you. We got an email from the CMPD about this but the attachment with the details was missing. We'll fill you in as soon as we get those details.
UPDATE AND SYNOPSIS: Illegal alien ex-husband from Santa Ana was upset that his ex-wife and his two children were living with another man in the 3000 block of Fillmore. The illegal alien ex-husband and a friend went to that residence, beat up the man and then dropped him off in Huntington Beach. The illegal alien ex-husband (probably not the only illegal alien in this tale, but the only one so far identified as such) was subsequently arrested and is in the Costa Mesa jail.
Many police officers and lots of expense involved in this latest illegal alien story from Costa Mesa.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
CM PRESS # 797
8:25 PM--3/15/12--REPORT ON CHARTER MEETING
The CM PRESS just came from the charter meeting put on by the anti-charter folks at the Downtown Community Center. The meeting was still going on when we left and it was in the questions from the audience phase. There were about 150 +- people at the meeting--a full house.
The meeting was well organized by Robin Lefler and her comrades and it was respectful of the good Councilmembers (Jim Righeimer and Steve Mensinger were in the audience--Wendy Leece was also there).
There was a minimum of scare talk from the anti-charter people.
All in all, it was a polite meeting--which was in marked contrast to the rude behavior some of these same people have shown at City Council meetings.
One thing, however: We think the antis are mistaken in being opposed to the charter and we think many know this and are just organizing for runs for the City Council this year and are using this charter issue as their stepping stone.
As we've written before, we support the charter. It's not our biggest issue by any means, but we've had a life long belief that the best government is the one closest to the people and that local people should be behind the steering wheel and driving their own community--not politicians in a city far away--such as those in Sacramento. We heard nothing tonight that changed our mind.
And, about that large crowd that was there. Not everyone was there because of the charter.
We know some were there because of the proposed commercialization of Tewinkle Park. The CM PRESS is with these folks on this. We've listened to the pros and cons of the idea, and we think it was an idea worth considering, but now we think it's an idea that should be rejected.
We think Tewinkle Park should remain pretty much as it is today with little or no commercialization.
We may have more to write on this meeting in the morning.
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THE WINTER HIATUS IS OVER AND THE LHC IS NOW SMASHING ATOMS AGAIN
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These are the ones we saw as we quickly read down the page. These generally all refer to Jim Righeimer, in one way or another: blitzkrieg assault, fit of pique, misguided effort, disembowel, under the guise of, junior high school social studies project, defacto scrapbook, cutting and pasting a snippet, rushed this process, one man's personal political agenda, a propaganda flier, hastily crafted by one man, failed pet projects.
Boy, this Righeimer guy and the charter must be bad news to have all those over the top negative emotive terms used in one column.
But, dear gentle reader, it's not all over the top sour terms in West's lexicon. Nope. He also uses over the top positive emotive terms when he refers to two individuals who West apparently believes would, or who already do, support a go slow or different approach to the charter that may be more to West's liking.
First, West says of Hank Panian that he is a "revered educator and community leader." Yup. West actually used the term "revered." You see, "r" comes before "s," in the thesauraus. If it had been "s" first, we might have read that the gentleman is "saintly."
Then, West refers to Marian Bergeson as a"highly respected" resident [of Newport Beach].
Well there you have it. A revered educator and community leader and a highly respected resident [of Newport Beach], against a blitzkrieging Jim Righeimer who in a fit of pique over something has disemboweled someone or something as he rushed through his charter because of some failed projects and now the charter looks like a defacto cut and paste scrapbook with snippets from a junior high school social studies project.
Perhaps we should be kind to West. He doesn't always seem to know what he's talking about or what the words he uses mean.
For example, in something West wrote about a City Council meeting, he used the term schizophrenic to indicate it was split in two. Actually, if he had any understanding of words, he would have realized that the correct word is schizoid. Not at all the same thing.
When we pointed this out to West while he was trying to kiss up to us before a meeting recently, he got red faced and his voice got even more strangulated sounding than usual (possibly a nervous and uncontrollable spasmodic constriction of his larynx when a man with nice hair talks to him) and he squeaked "I write my opinions." Well, yes, but opinions should be based on something rather than shrill emotionalism and one really shouldn't use words if one doesn't know what they mean.
Indeed, West's opinions do often seem to be based on emotion instead of cool logic, and he seems to go from one the-sky-is-falling-and-life-will-end-as-we-know-it-in-Costa Mesa crisis after another unless,in West's opinion (always opinions with this guy; never facts) Righeimer and the other good Councilmembers stop trying to fix broken Costa Mesa and just sit on their hands like some previous Councilmembers.
And, West doesn't seem to have much of a sense of the trajectories of events. Or, as he might write "cents of the trigonometrics of tents." Hey, it's his opinion. He can use any words he wants.
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BUY UP OVERCROWDED BUILDINGS AND PUT IN PARKING?
These are the same units where a man was killed in a drive-by shooting a couple of years ago.
We wanted to emphasize the line below that is from the above story. This line puts the geneticists behind this study in danger of being called racists by the usual dimwits who don't understand nature or the way it works with organisms and who try to convince people that humans are above nature and its basic principles.
No, dimwits, the truth of nature is that races (actually, races are subspecies) are to humans what breeds are to dogs and varieties are to roses. There is not a one size fits all human. Nature doesn't work that way. Nature constantly tinkers with life to help it adapt to different conditions, so life--some life--can survive and thrive in every niche possible.
Genes are us.
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LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT HOW BEST TO SPEND CITIZEN MONEY IN COSTA MESA
In Costa Mesa, a large charity culture has developed that does NOTHING to improve the City and helps drive it down to skid row levels.
Here's why: The charities use our money for things that are consumed or which are intangible; such as food and services. The charities do nothing to improve the City so Costa Mesa will attract upwardly mobile people; they just give out freebies that leave no improvement trace once they are used up.
The question is this: Do we want Costa Mesa to keep sliding to skid row status with charities and freebies, or do we want Costa Mesa to improve to attract upwardly mobile contributing citizens?
We can't kidnap upwardly mobile people and force them to live in Costa Mesa. We have to convince them that this is a great place to live and raise their families. And, charities don't do this.
Have no doubt about this, Costa Mesa is competing for top quality businesses and residents with other cities, and unless we improve the way this City looks and unless we start focusing on fixing the city instead of giving freebies out, we're going to lose the competition.
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Eric Bever named Mayor. Jim Righeimer remains Mayor Pro Tem.
Before that meeting, the then liberal City Council and liberal Planning Commission pretty much dismissed the talk of improvement as coming from one or two people, but at the Victoria School meeting, there was a standing room only and overflow crowd of people who wanted to see improvement.
This led to the formation of the committees to study the Westside and the creation of the Westside Plans that you can see on the City's website.
CDBG Funds
Vision for Harbor Boulevard Improvements
This report by Peter Naghavi to the Council had two parts. In the first part, Naghavi discussed the things that are planned right now to improve Harbor Blvd.--given budgetary constraints--which mostly involved putting in attractive crosswalks and some street scapes.
The closest examples we know of that are similar to the students' vision are some of the street scapes in Irvine or even parts of Bristol Street near Mater Dei High School.
The CM PRESS just came from the charter meeting put on by the anti-charter folks at the Downtown Community Center. The meeting was still going on when we left and it was in the questions from the audience phase. There were about 150 +- people at the meeting--a full house.
The meeting was well organized by Robin Lefler and her comrades and it was respectful of the good Councilmembers (Jim Righeimer and Steve Mensinger were in the audience--Wendy Leece was also there).
There was a minimum of scare talk from the anti-charter people.
All in all, it was a polite meeting--which was in marked contrast to the rude behavior some of these same people have shown at City Council meetings.
One thing, however: We think the antis are mistaken in being opposed to the charter and we think many know this and are just organizing for runs for the City Council this year and are using this charter issue as their stepping stone.
As we've written before, we support the charter. It's not our biggest issue by any means, but we've had a life long belief that the best government is the one closest to the people and that local people should be behind the steering wheel and driving their own community--not politicians in a city far away--such as those in Sacramento. We heard nothing tonight that changed our mind.
And, about that large crowd that was there. Not everyone was there because of the charter.
We know some were there because of the proposed commercialization of Tewinkle Park. The CM PRESS is with these folks on this. We've listened to the pros and cons of the idea, and we think it was an idea worth considering, but now we think it's an idea that should be rejected.
We think Tewinkle Park should remain pretty much as it is today with little or no commercialization.
We may have more to write on this meeting in the morning.
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THE WINTER HIATUS IS OVER AND THE LHC IS NOW SMASHING ATOMS AGAIN
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| Geoff West and Wendy Leece yucking it up |
"Following a blitzkrieg assault..." So starts Geoff West's latest amateurish attempt to sway public opinion against the charter and Jim Righeimer. [You masochists can punish yourselves by looking at his whole goofy column by clicking on the headline above.]
"Blitzkrieg?" Say, what a coincidence, Righeimer is a German name. You know about those Germans, by golly. Why, we all remember that other German who was a big shot in history, right? That would be Dwight D. Eisenhower (orig. Eisenhauer).
But, wait a minute, maybe West wasn't trying to evoke Eisenhower. Maybe he was trying to evoke images in a reader's mind of the hundreds of German intellectuals and musical giants who have contributed so much to civilization?
Probably not. Maybe West can help us out by telling us what image he was trying to conjur up in a reader's mind when he used the term "blitzkrieg." Yes, exactly what was he trying to have seep into the subconscious minds of readers?
At any rate, let's move on and look a little more at West's column with it's strung together over the top negative emotive terms to see if we can divine what West is trying to tell readers about the charter and Righeimer.
To save space, and to be kind to readers who may not want to slog through West's column, we'll just list most of the emotive terms that jumped out at us.
Boy, this Righeimer guy and the charter must be bad news to have all those over the top negative emotive terms used in one column.
But, dear gentle reader, it's not all over the top sour terms in West's lexicon. Nope. He also uses over the top positive emotive terms when he refers to two individuals who West apparently believes would, or who already do, support a go slow or different approach to the charter that may be more to West's liking.
First, West says of Hank Panian that he is a "revered educator and community leader." Yup. West actually used the term "revered." You see, "r" comes before "s," in the thesauraus. If it had been "s" first, we might have read that the gentleman is "saintly."
Then, West refers to Marian Bergeson as a"highly respected" resident [of Newport Beach].
Well there you have it. A revered educator and community leader and a highly respected resident [of Newport Beach], against a blitzkrieging Jim Righeimer who in a fit of pique over something has disemboweled someone or something as he rushed through his charter because of some failed projects and now the charter looks like a defacto cut and paste scrapbook with snippets from a junior high school social studies project.
Perhaps we should be kind to West. He doesn't always seem to know what he's talking about or what the words he uses mean.
For example, in something West wrote about a City Council meeting, he used the term schizophrenic to indicate it was split in two. Actually, if he had any understanding of words, he would have realized that the correct word is schizoid. Not at all the same thing.
When we pointed this out to West while he was trying to kiss up to us before a meeting recently, he got red faced and his voice got even more strangulated sounding than usual (possibly a nervous and uncontrollable spasmodic constriction of his larynx when a man with nice hair talks to him) and he squeaked "I write my opinions." Well, yes, but opinions should be based on something rather than shrill emotionalism and one really shouldn't use words if one doesn't know what they mean.
Indeed, West's opinions do often seem to be based on emotion instead of cool logic, and he seems to go from one the-sky-is-falling-and-life-will-end-as-we-know-it-in-Costa Mesa crisis after another unless,in West's opinion (always opinions with this guy; never facts) Righeimer and the other good Councilmembers stop trying to fix broken Costa Mesa and just sit on their hands like some previous Councilmembers.
And, West doesn't seem to have much of a sense of the trajectories of events. Or, as he might write "cents of the trigonometrics of tents." Hey, it's his opinion. He can use any words he wants.
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BUY UP OVERCROWDED BUILDINGS AND PUT IN PARKING?
At yesterday's City Council study session, Mayor Pro Tem Righeimer asked staff to come back with a plan to ease the dangerous on-street parking on the south side of Baker Street between Harbor and Fairview. His repeated suggestion to staff was that they should look into how the City can buy one or more of the tri-plexes/four-plexes along that stretch so they can be razed for necessary parking.
These are the same units where a man was killed in a drive-by shooting a couple of years ago.
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REPEAT: SAME STORY WAS RUN IN CM PRESS YESTERDAY ABOUT THE GENETIC BASIS OF FREE-THINKING BRITS AND CONFORMIST CHINESEWe wanted to emphasize the line below that is from the above story. This line puts the geneticists behind this study in danger of being called racists by the usual dimwits who don't understand nature or the way it works with organisms and who try to convince people that humans are above nature and its basic principles.
"If they are confirmed, the findings made by Chiao and her colleagues would suggest that races may have a number of inherent psychological differences — just as they differ in physical appearances."
And the dimwit chorus composed of our present flat worlders say: "What? You mean these racist scientists are saying that genes rule over things of the brain also? Why, why, haruumph, next they'll be saying that some races are inherently more violent or are dumber or are this or that. Don't they know that we're all the same except for different paint jobs? Don't they know that there is only one race, the human race? Haven't they heard and internalized these and other cliches that are really meaningless, but which give us libs happy feelings?"
No, dimwits, the truth of nature is that races (actually, races are subspecies) are to humans what breeds are to dogs and varieties are to roses. There is not a one size fits all human. Nature doesn't work that way. Nature constantly tinkers with life to help it adapt to different conditions, so life--some life--can survive and thrive in every niche possible.
And, nature doesn't care one whit whether this or this other type of life survives; it just "cares" that some life survives.
Genes are us.
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LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT HOW BEST TO SPEND CITIZEN MONEY IN COSTA MESA
In Costa Mesa, a large charity culture has developed that does NOTHING to improve the City and helps drive it down to skid row levels.
Here's why: The charities use our money for things that are consumed or which are intangible; such as food and services. The charities do nothing to improve the City so Costa Mesa will attract upwardly mobile people; they just give out freebies that leave no improvement trace once they are used up.
And, while the charities use our money on these consumables and intangibles, the local press helps them tug at your heart strings with gushy, formulaic stories about how this or that individual's life has been improved.
These stories are often about students. How many stories have you read about little so and so, who came from a broken home and is the first in his family to go to college? Just substitute names and this is the same story that has been repeated here in Costa Mesa for decades.
The reality is that the number of charities on the Westside that say they're helping students with school studies are legion. Funny thing though, the schools that these charities feed off of are still the worst in Costa Mesa. So, if the charities are doing such a great job with our money, why are the schools on the Westside still the worst schools? How long will citizens be saps and let the charity bosses trick them into giving money to things that don't work?
Well, if our money is not doing anything to improve Costa Mesa by giving it to the charities which are black holes that come back year after year, how should our money be spent to improve the Westside and Costa Mesa?
The answer is that it should be spent on improving the physical aspects of the city--the infrastructure--and it should be used to modernize the City so that Costa Mesa will become a magnet for people who don't need freebies.
The question is this: Do we want Costa Mesa to keep sliding to skid row status with charities and freebies, or do we want Costa Mesa to improve to attract upwardly mobile contributing citizens?
If we want the latter, then our money should be spent on making Costa Mesa the place upwardly mobile people want to be instead of the place they want to flee.
We can't kidnap upwardly mobile people and force them to live in Costa Mesa. We have to convince them that this is a great place to live and raise their families. And, charities don't do this.
Have no doubt about this, Costa Mesa is competing for top quality businesses and residents with other cities, and unless we improve the way this City looks and unless we start focusing on fixing the city instead of giving freebies out, we're going to lose the competition.
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REPORT FROM YESTERDAY'S CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION
Eric Bever named Mayor. Jim Righeimer remains Mayor Pro Tem.
Bever has been a long time improvement advocate in the City. It was Bever, before he entered politics, who organized the first major Westside Improvement meeting at Victoria School that, in hindsight, was the major turning point in bringing the idea of focused continual improvement to the City and especially to the Westside.
Before that meeting, the then liberal City Council and liberal Planning Commission pretty much dismissed the talk of improvement as coming from one or two people, but at the Victoria School meeting, there was a standing room only and overflow crowd of people who wanted to see improvement.
This led to the formation of the committees to study the Westside and the creation of the Westside Plans that you can see on the City's website.
Allan Mansoor, who was unknown to us at that time, also attended that meeting and then approached a few of us and said he also wanted to see the Westside improved and he wanted to know if we would get behind his campaign if he ran for City Council to help bring in improvement. At that time, we had already elected one guy to the Council and had shown what we were capable of doing at the grassroots level. After several meetings with Allan, the Improvers decided to back him.
--------CDBG Funds
The 3R Committee made its report on giving our money to the charities. This year, the amount that can be given to the charities is approximately $ 157,502. The City Council is allowed, but doesn't have to, give up to fifteen percent of CDBG funds it receives each year to the charities. The total CDBG funds received this year will be approximately $1,050,105.
-----Vision for Harbor Boulevard Improvements
This report by Peter Naghavi to the Council had two parts. In the first part, Naghavi discussed the things that are planned right now to improve Harbor Blvd.--given budgetary constraints--which mostly involved putting in attractive crosswalks and some street scapes.
The second part was a presentation by OCC students from an Advanced Design class which involved an integrated film of Harbor Blvd. as it is now with a morphing into what the students suggest can be done. It was a nice vision of Harbor Blvd. with curved sidewalks, more plants, modern lighting, various wall treatments and more that made the street much more aesthetically pleasing and modern than it is now. What impressed the CM PRESS was the fact that the students stayed realistic with their vision and within the realm of reality.
The closest examples we know of that are similar to the students' vision are some of the street scapes in Irvine or even parts of Bristol Street near Mater Dei High School.
We were pleased that both Jim Righeimer and Steve Mensinger told Mr. Naghavi that they wanted to see some ideas for improving W. 19th Street and also Placentia Ave. along with his ideas for Harbor Blvd.
Wendy Leece, who lives in a gated community on the Westside but who seems oblivious to the improvements needed over there, once again tried to switch the conversation from improvement to a talk about how much she loves employees, but Bever quickly got the focus back when he asked her what that has to do with the items on the agenda. Leece tried to save face by saying that it had to do with how we spend our money (read, Leece apparently wants to spend our money on employees and not on improving the City for residents).
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COSTA MESA... TRIVIA: A LEFTY BLOGGER HAS A CLIP FROM HILL STREET BLUES ON HIS CHILDISH BLOG TODAY When I was acting in New York, I did a...