CM PRESS # 385

AWW GEEZ--WE HAVE TO CORRECT THE ALMOST-DAILY, DAILY PILOT AGAIN

Last week, we had to tell the almost-daily Daily Pilot that it is improper to refer to Marines as soldiers. They are Marines.

Now we have to tell the Pilot that the machine being used to demolish El Camino Center is not a backhoe. It is technically an excavator. A backhoe is usually smaller and has wheels. An excavator is bigger, usually has tracks, and has a cab and arm that pivot.

The top right picture is an excavator. The lower left picture is a backhoe.

In the future, Pilot, maybe you should have us fact check for you.

Some might be asking why it matters whether it's a backhoe or an excavator mentioned in the Pilot article.

The answer is that given all the foot-dragging on this center over the years, it's important to note that the machine being used for the demolition is not some puny little backhoe, but a powerful excavator that is up to the job.

Here's the LINK to the Pilot's article about the backhoe that is not a backhoe.
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UPDATE--MORE AWW GEEZ

Now the almost-daily Daily Pilot has a headline that "Construction" has resumed at El Camino Center. LINK

Actually, there is no construction going on at all. There is, however, a lot of destruction going on. In the biz, we usually call that demolition. You see, when you are constructing, you are...ah, never mind.

So, here's the scene at the El Camino site according to the almost-daily Daily Pilot: a puny little backhoe is involved in constructing something or other.

This, of course, as you no doubt have already guessed, leaves us no choice but to quote Humpty Dumpty who apparently works at the almost-daily Daily Pilot:

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
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CM PRESS # 384

PROP 98 LOSES BIG TO PROP 99!

What this means generally

Prop. 98--The one that failed-- would have prohibited the government from taking any private property--homes, apartments, shopping centers, raw land, industrial buildings--and giving them to another private party.

Prop 99--The one that passed--only prohibits government from taking owner-occupied homes and giving them to another private owner.

What this means for Costa Mesa

If the City of Costa Mesa decides it wants to remove slum apartment buildings or misplaced industrial buildings to help improve the city, it can use eminent domain to do so. And, it can give the land to developers for uses that will benefit the city.

Vote Percentages--June 3, 2008 election

Prop. 99 got 62.5% of the vote vs. 39% for Prop. 98.
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CM PRESS # 383

EXCAVATOR AT EL CAMINO CENTER THIS MORNING
(stock photo)

An excavator similar to the one in the photo was seen getting ready to demolish the buildings at the El Camino Center at about 8 a.m. this morning.

UPDATE--Hmmm. Let's see, first you start tearing down the building and then you disconnect the utilities. Or, is it the other way around? LINK
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IS THE CITY COUNCIL INCAPABLE OF SEEING THE BIG PICTURE?

The CM PRESS tried again at last night's City Council meeting to get the City Council to understand that a relatively small city such as Costa Mesa can be screwed up in many ways if the Council doesn't see the big picture and act accordingly.

What we see happening is that the Council seems to consider each item that comes before the Council as though that item is in a vacuum and that it can be voted up or down on its merits as though it exists someplace isolated out in space.

In fact, however, our city is more like a chess board. If you move a piece over here, it affects everything else on the board and creates a trajectory and probabilities.

To illustrate this interconnectedness, we used the horrible rankings of Costa Mesa High School and Estancia High School which ranked respectively 58 and 51 out of 63 high schools in Orange County, with 63 being the worst and 1 being the best. See CM PRESS # 381 for more details).

We told the Council, again, that these schools are not bad because of the school buildings, the school district or the teachers. They are bad because the City Council is letting Costa Mesa be turned into a new Santa Ana (the worst high school in the county--# 63--is Century H/S in Santa Ana).

We also, and also once again, pointed out that the Council has approved plans submitted by the rich developers in South Coast Metro to put in hundreds of high-end housing units in the South Coast Metro area without having to do their fair share to supply affordable housing.

Why is this important and how does this relate to the chess board?

The State of California mandates that every city have a certain percentage of its housing stock be affordable housing. Cities don't have a choice. They have to do this.

So, if the South Coast Metro developers build more housing, Costa Mesa's requirement for affordable housing goes up.

And, if the South Coast Metro developers are given a pass on supplying any of that affordable housing either in their development or elsewhere in the city, the city will have to find ways to supply that affordable housing on the backs of its ordinary citizens.

In addition, the city won't be able to remove any of our existing slums because those slums are part of our affordable housing requirements.

And, if we continue to have slums, we're going to continue to be an illegal alien sanctuary city.

Illegal aliens will put their non-English speaking children in our schools. Then, our schools will start being ranked very low.

Next, upwardly mobile parents will take their kids out of our schools and put them elsewhere.

Then, the school rankings will drop even more.

With the low school rankings, Costa Mesa won't be able to attract or keep upwardly mobile citizens, and our home values will drop, crime will increase, we'll have more gangs, more graffiti, more abandoned shopping carts.

It's all connected, folks. This is the stuff of a downward spiral. Reversing that spiral requires much more than just planting flowers in the middle of W. 19th Street.

We live in a cause and effect universe. Gangs, crime, low school rankings and all the rest of the problems we see in Costa Mesa are effects. Can you see the causes?

If any City Council members want a further explanation, you know where to find me: last row, end seat.
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IF YOU SEE THESE INVISIBLE SUSPECTS CALL THE CMPD

We've noticed that the last two CMPD press releases on crimes in the city give almost no information. We wonder why the CMPD even bothers to send such things out to the public.

Here's one about an attempted kidnapping from 5/31. LINK

Here's another about a sexual assault from 6/1. LINK
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UPDATE ON ALLEGED PEEPER FROM CM PRESS # 378

Here's the entry from the Daily Pilot's crime logs on the above incident: LINK

Baker Street, 1100 block:Arrest, May 30. Hilario Hernandez-Lopez, 28, of Costa Mesa, was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct involving loitering in or about a toilet and use of false citizenship/documents.

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CM PRESS # 382

RED-LIGHT CAMERAS ALL OVER THE CITY--MAY BE A BAD IDEA

The City Council is going to vote tonight on whether to install red-light cameras at Harbor/Gisler; Harbor/South Coast Drive; Victoria/Placentia and Harbor/Baker.

We can't speak to most of the locations in detail, but the Harbor/Baker location may be a bad location for a red-light camera.

We won't belabor this, but at the Harbor/Baker location it might be better to lengthen the time of the yellow light where there are left turn arrows and stop allowing U-turns.

Harbor/Baker is a minor Chinese fire drill with fast yellow lights on the green arrows and a jumble of movement of cars and pedestrians in a driver's field of vision, so we can see why the city wants to do something. However, the something that is done should be carefully thought out.

What happens at Harbor/Baker is:

1. Drivers heading west who attempt to turn south on Harbor often get stuck behind large slow moving trucks turning on green arrows, and often can't see the green arrow change to yellow because the light is blocked by the trucks. These drivers then get stuck in the middle of the intersection as opposing traffic starts moving toward them.

You'll usually see three or four cars caught in the middle of the Harbor/Baker intersection this way. And, for the most part, these aren't drivers speeding up to rush through the yellow light. They are drivers caught behind trucks who can't tell the light has changed.

2. Also, because U-turns are allowed at this intersection, a driver wanting to legally turn right on red almost develops tennis neck trying to figure out which cars are going to be coming his or her way.

If the red-light goes in at this Harbor/Baker intersection, there may be a lot of red-light citations issued that won't be just.
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SLUM NEWS--GRAFFITI

There's more gang graffiti this morning in the Fillmore-Coolidge slum.

We won't say exactly where it is because we want Stepford People to see it and wake up to the problem we have in this city.

"Look at that Harry; graffiti in our neighborhood. Who'd a thunk it? Now that we've seen this graffiti, we're starting to wake up to reality. Maybe we should start asking the City Council some hard questions about gangs and crime and failing schools and why they're letting Costa Mesa become a sanctuary city for illegal aliens."

Okay, we'll give you a couple of clues about the location of this graffiti. It's about 50 feet south of the two abandoned shopping carts sitting on the parkway, and 15 feet east of the piles of food wrappers in the gutter. Want another clue? It's about 200 feet from where a man was killed in a gang shooting about two years ago.
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MORE STALKER NEWS

The difference between sanity and mental illness is often a matter of degree.

For example, disciplining a child for, say, playing with matches, is the correct thing for parents to do for the child's own safety. That's what sane people do.

However, seriously injuring the child for playing with matches is not the correct thing to do. That's what a mentally ill person might do.

Turn now to stalkers.

Stalkers are often categorized as being neurotic (mild mental illness) or psychotic (serious mental illness).

The classic and easy way to remember the difference between a neurotic and a psychotic is found in the saying that a neurotic dreams of gingerbread houses but a psychotic lives in them.

It's fairly normal to have a mild interest in movie stars, for example, but when the interest crosses the line into obsession and fixation, it's a mental illness.

Here's a good quick-read about celebrity stalkers and their famous victims. You might find this interesting. LINK

Of course, not all stalkers are celebrity stalkers. There are many of these mentally ill stalkers who stalk ordinary people.

Stalkers, no matter how mentally ill they are, will often function in society such that, except for their obsession and fixation with another individual, they are difficult for most people to spot.

Could you know a stalker?

If you know someone who seems to be obsessed and fixated on some other individual such that the obsessed person can barely say or write a few sentences without mentioning this other person, you may have discovered a stalker or one or more of his dupes.

And, if you have spotted such a stalker, you can be pretty sure that when the stalker is in private, he may be making harassing phone calls, sending threatening letters, and doing all the things that these whack jobs do.
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WRITE IN CANDIDATE

Oh, when you vote today, and if you don't know who to vote for, you can always write in the name Martin H. Millard for the Republican Central Committee or for Member of the State Assembly--68th District.

Actually, I should be careful in suggesting that. I once won an election for a film/actors union on a similar basis. After I won, I didn't know what to do.
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CM PRESS # 381

ORANGE COUNTY'S TOP HIGH SCHOOLS--AREN'T IN COSTA MESA

Here's the LINK to the OC REGISTER'S feature on the 63 public High Schools in Orange County that appears in today's paper.

The Register has a lot of information about schools, so if you want to get things down to the nth degree, be sure to navigate around when you visit the paper's site.

For our purposes, it's probably enough to say that the worst schools in the ring of cities were in Santa Ana. Santa Ana's Century High School came in dead last at 63.

In Costa Mesa, Costa Mesa H/S came in at 58 and Estancia ranked as 51.

Corona del Mar came in at 12 and Newport Harbor came in at 37.

Newport Beach's rankings are driven down by having many Costa Mesa students in that city's schools. It's sad but true.

Irvine's High Schools came in as follows: Woodbridge 10; Northwood 9; Irvine 5; University 3.

Remember, the lower the number, the better the school.

WHY THESE RANKINGS MATTER

When upwardly mobile young families look for homes, the price of homes is not always the most important factor. They look for homes near schools that are high-performing so their kids can get a leg up on life.

Costa Mesa is losing too many of these families to South County. It's important, if we want to make Costa Mesa a nicer city, that we be the kind of city where these folks will want to live and raise their kids.

We need to get our school rankings up.

We can't do that, however, as long as we are an illegal alien sanctuary city.

Please don't make the mistake of saying that Costa Mesa has failing schools or bad teachers. We don't. The problem is that we have too many failing students and they're driving down the scores in our schools.

Costa Mesa's "bad school" problem is not a school or school district problem. It is a city problem. It can only be fixed by the City Council, not the School Board.

And, how can it be fixed by the City Council?

By turning Costa Mesa back into a First World City by getting us off the downward path to becoming a full-blown Third World City.

How many Santa Anas do we need in Orange County, anyway? Isn't one enough?
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GANG GRAFFITI COVERED UP

The gang graffiti in Katrina Foley's Mesa Del Mar neighborhood, that we reported in CM PRESS # 380, has now been covered up. If you missed it, don't worry, there will be more, maybe by tomorrow.
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NOMINATED FOR BEST FICTION BY MENSA

We just received notification from MENSA that one of our short fiction stories is up for another award from the high I.Q. society.
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CM PRESS # 380

MORE GANG GRAFFITI IN KATRINA FOLEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD THIS WEEKEND

(Technical problems with format. Will try to fix later.)

There was more gang graffiti in Katrina Foley's Mesa Del Mar neighborhood in Foley's Mission-Mendoza slum over the weekend.

As of 8 am this morning it was still there. It's all over the place, so if you want to see it, just drive near the slum. It's also on buildings in the Fillmore-Coolidge slum.

It seems that the flowers Foley planted in front of the slum didn't do much to stop the gangs. What a surprise. It seems all the tax money we're giving to feel-good, hug-a-thug programs isn't helping. What a surprise.

Here's the problem with graffiti that Foley and her fou fou Land's End galoshes wearing crew can't seem to understand: The problem is not the graffiti. Graffiti is just the symptom of a more serious problem.

To stop the graffiti you have to treat the disease, not cover up the graffiti so people don't see it.

Look, this isn't difficult. If you have a skin cancer, do you think it goes away because you put a bandaid on it so you can't see it? Wouldn't you rather know about it and treat the cancer, not just hide it?

So long as the Mission-Mendoza slum stands, there will be problems there.

Functionally obsolete slums don't get better with age, folks.

They're not like the wine and cheese at Foley's kumbaya parties for her liberal pals. Functionally obsolete slums get worse with age.

When you hear about some slum areas in some inner cities starting to gentrify and get safer and nicer, what you need to know is that those areas usually have classic brownstone buildings that are capable of being fixed up.

The slums in Costa Mesa are not classic brownstones. They are slab-sided, plywood, cheaply constructed barracks style tri-plexes and four-plexes crowded on to streets like military barracks.

As we've written before, they remind us of the barracks at Parris Island and Gitmo. They can't be fixed. That's what "functionally obsolete" means.

The only thing that can be done is to thin them out or tear them all down and start over with modern low income housing that is not concentrated in one or two areas. Sardine-can slums like the one in Foley's neighborhood can't be fixed.

Foley and her pals want the city to rush to cover up graffiti, lest the Stepford People wake up and realize there are some serious problems in Costa Mesa and demand real action and real improvement.

They don't want citizens to see the graffiti and realize the con job that they're being sold by Foley and her hug-a-thug crew of incompetent boobs whose answer to gangs and crime is to hide the problem and then give more of your tax money to their charity boss pals who will come in with the latest non-working plan to solve the problem and who may just end up making the problem worse.

If you have a swamp, you'll have alligators.

Get rid of the swamp, and the alligators will leave all on their own accord.

Foley and her pals think that if we plant flowers in front of the swamp, start charities for the alligators, talk about squishy intervention strategies for the alligators, and do all the other lefty non-working things, that these will solve the alligator problem. It's stupid thinking.

Remove the swamp and the alligators will go away. That's what works.

How many gangs are there in Newport Beach? Oh, perhaps, NONE! How many slums in Newport Beach? Oh, perhaps, NONE! See any pattern there? See any cause and effect? How many examples do you need?

Costa Mesa should not be like Santa Ana.

It should be more like Newport Beach and other coastal communities. Our natural destiny is our geography--our closeness to the Pacific Ocean.

We should stop fighting our geography, and use it to improve our city.

We should reject those who want to make Costa Mesa into an inner city and support those who want our city to look to the sea for our way out of the mess that has been caused by too many lefty and weak sister politicians who have helped stuff Costa Mesa with those things that are now causing our problems.

MESA DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION (LINK)

As you may recall, in CM PRESS # 369, we reported how LISA REEDY, the president of the Mesa Del Mar Homeowners Association, told the City Council that it's not helpful for people to talk about the slum in her neighborhood and that Mesa Del Mar is just one big [happy] community.

Well, Ms. Reedy, what are you doing to get rid of the gangs in your neighborhood? Your PTA level happy talk is useless. Your home values are dropping and your neighborhood has a large no-go zone because of the slum.

Go look at the graffiti this morning, Ms. Reedy, before the city covers it up. Then try to explain to your homeowners why it's there and why it keeps popping up all the time. No, Ms. Reedy, gangs are not commuting to your neighborhood. They live in that slum. They will always live in that slum so long as the slum remains. It is their habitat.

You wonder why no developer has stepped up to build expensive homes on the El Camino Shopping Center site, Ms. Reedy?

It's because it sits right across the street from one of the worst slums in Costa Mesa and that slum is in Mesa Del Mar--your neighborhood.

You may not know this, Ms. Reedy, but we became active in Costa Mesa after a gang attack on someone we know that happened in Mesa Del Mar. Shortly after that, we attended our first City Council meeting and started working to improve our city. That attack woke us up.

Hopefully, Ms. Reedy, you won't have to have that happen to someone you know before you wake up and realize that pretending the slum doesn't exist in Mesa Del Mar is a losing strategy.

Instead of working with your homeowners on ways to get rid of the slum, you seem to be following in the footsteps of do-nothing Foley who would rather do feel-good PC things such as gather food for people in South County or complain about an expensive spa closing at South Coast Plaza.

Because of the size and quality of most of the homes in Mesa Del Mar and the way the tract is laid out, it should be one of the best neighborhoods in Costa Mesa.

Unfortunately, it will never be so, as long as the slum remains.

You have a cancer in your neighborhood, Ms. Reedy. Trying to deny or hide the truth is only going to make things worse.

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STALKER NEWS
(Our new feature about the mentally ill stalkers among us)

Judge gives mentally ill stalker of Uma Thurman probation. LINK

Conan O'Brien's stalker a Catholic priest. LINK

Stalking is a crime in California and many other states. See Cal. Penal Code Sec. 646.9

According to experts, here are some of the things that mentally ill stalkers do: They fixate and obsess about some other person. They often set up blogs just to harass that person. They often send threatening letters. They will often make hang-up telephone calls to the victim. They will often subscribe to magazines in the victim's name. They will try to enlist others to help with their stalking.
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CM PRESS # 379

CAUTION: DON'T OPEN A NEW JOB CENTER UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO DO SO

As the Costa Mesa City Council studies the day worker ordinances from Orange, and hopefully from a couple of other communities, the CM PRESS suggests that the Council move very slowly 1n opening a new job center and that it only do so if no alternatives are available.

Once you open such a thing, you might find that you're stuck with it for 17 years--like the last job center.

And, if one is opened, do not put it on the Westside or in the north part of the city. Put it on the Eastside and have it run and be paid for by a private company, not the city.

Those pushing to have a new job center opened, such as Steve Smith, who writes a column for the Daily Pilot, seem to be exaggerating the count of loitering day workers around the city in order to make the City Council think it's a bigger problem than it is.

The only reason a new job center should be opened is to meet "reasonable, time, place and manner" requirements so that loitering day workers can be arrested by the CMPD if they do not use the job center.


HERE'S THE PROBLEM WE FACE IF WE OPEN A NEW JOB CENTER

Even when we had the old job center, the cops wouldn't arrest loitering day workers.

So, if we open a new job center, will the CMPD now enforce our ordinances? Why? What's really changed?

In CM PRESS # 375, we recounted a recent incident where the CMPD ignored a citizen's call to enforce an ordinance that is in the same general category as the day worker ordinances.

And, to repeat. It's seeming more and more that the CMPD isn't being run by top brass but by mid and lower level personnel, with a Return to Reason agenda, who seem to decide all on their own which laws to enforce.

And, these mid and lower level personnel have all sorts of passive resistance tricks to not enforce our laws. "Unable to locate," is one of their main ones.

A couple of years ago, a citizen called the CMPD repeatedly over a couple of month period to report a problem vending truck. Finally, the citizen told the CMPD that he was going to observe and film the non-action of the CMPD regarding this truck and show the film at a City Council meeting.

Then, and only then, did the CMPD finally approach the driver of the truck, who was selling to a bunch of kids. And, guess what? The guy turned out to be a felon and was not supposed to be around children and there was a warrant out for his arrest.

IF THE COPS WON'T ENFORCE OUR LAWS, WE SHOULD NOT OPEN A NEW JOB CENTER. PERIOD. AND, IF WE DO OPEN ONE, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO QUICKLY CLOSE IT AGAIN, IF LOITERING PROBLEMS CONTINUE. WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER JOB CENTER AND LOITERING AT THE SAME TIME AS IN THE PAST.

Last week, the Pilot ran a column about possibly opening a new job center. LINK

Then, the PILOT cheerleader for a job center, Steve Smith, chimed in with manipulative praise for Mayor Bever for the latter's talk about opening a new job center.

First Smith writes this:

Steve Smith wrote on May 29, 2008 10:42 PM:

" Eric, you are to be commended for jump-starting this program, but we have different memories of the Job Center. I was a Westside resident when it opened and I recall an immediate positive impact with almost no day laborers on Placentia. That's because the opportunities for work were centralized. The program worked. So let's open a new one. And sure, let's go ahead and require proof of the right to work. Anyone here illegally can get a good fake ID for a few bucks but the rule will make some folks happy. "

[Notice more praise for Bever who Smith says is to be "commended"] [Then notice how Smith seems to indicate that it's okay if people have false ID cards as he writes it "will make some folks happy." Read, it'll shut the critics up and, hey, the illegals can get phony ID cards and who cares?]
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Then Smith writes:

steve smith wrote on May 30, 2008 5:51 PM:

" Bottom line: Closing the Job Center was a mistake. Eric Bever is brave and smart for suggesting it may be worth re-opening. My comment on the ID's is not in jest, it is based on fact and on precedent. You see, there is no requirement to check the validity of the ID and so it will not be checked. The ID proof requirement is toothless. Again, not an opinion, a fact. Now, in stead of attacking ME, please address the issue and offer a realistic solution to the problem. I've been giving mine for 2.5 years. "

[Notice the bootlicking praise obviously written to try to manipulate Bever toward opening a new job center.

It's Smith's latest transparent attempt at child psychology.

We all prefer praise to brickbats, and Smith apparently thinks Bever is easily led with carrots and sticks. It's as though Smith is saying to a five year old kid: "If you do this my way, I'll give you a piece of candy. If you don't do it my way, I'll spank you. Now, which way will you do it?"
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Finally, Smith writes in answer to a post from another reader:

ssmith wrote on May 31, 2008 10:15 AM:

" Mike J.: The fake driver licenses and Social Security cards used by illegals are almost always fake & do not use identities of others. The names and numbers are made up. These IDs are not for theft, they are for getting work and so they do not have to be real. The users know that very few places will check authenticity. Stealing an ID is another class of crime these crooks want to avoid. Plus, it's too labor intensive and time-consuming for what they charge. This information's coming from me, an ID theft victim of about 24 months ago. "

[Notice how Smith indicates it's okay with Smith that illegal aliens have fake IDs, because "These IDs are not for theft, they are for getting work and so they do not have to be real"]

Folks, that comment is absolutely outrageous and shows the type of thinking we've been seeing in this city from the likes of Smith for many years.
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GANG ACTIVITY FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE FILLMORE SLUM

The CMPD reported gang activity in the Fillmore slum on Friday night. Here's your multiple choice exam about that gang activity:

The gangs were:

a. White gangs
b. Chinese gangs
c. Latino gangs

If you're a member of Return to Reason, you probably picked "a." Sorry, that's not correct. That's almost never a correct answer in Costa Mesa. The second choice "b." is also incorrect. That also is almost never a correct answer in Costa Mesa. Answer "c." is almost always the correct answer in Costa Mesa.
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CM PRESS # 378

ALMOST-DAILY, DAILY PILOT: DROP AND GIVE US 50!

Then, get over to the blackboard and write the following a million times and don't you ever get it wrong again!


"MARINES ARE NOT SOLDIERS. THEY ARE MARINES. The Army has soldiers. The Airforce has Airmen. The Navy has sailors."

In an article about the new Marine statue in Newport Beach, the Almost-Daily, Daily Pilot's Joseph Serna constantly refers to Marines as soldiers. They are not soldiers. They are Marines. There is a difference. LINK

Say, didn't we just write something else about Serna? Isn't he the guy who figures it's not important if he tells readers if illegal aliens are illegal or not? What the hell kind of loosey-goosey crap is the Almost-Daily, Daily Pilot putting out these days?
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PEEPER GETS NABBED BY COPS

A guy who was peeping under the stall in the women's restroom at the Stater Bros. Market at Baker and Fairview, was chased and wrestled to the ground in the parking lot by store employees and handed over to the CMPD last night about 7:30 pm.

The CM PRESS was on the scene and came close to clotheslining the guy. From the looks of the peeper, he's probably going to be put on an ICE hold.
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KID GETS HIT BY CAR IN THE FILLMORE-COOLIDGE SLUM

A young kid was hit by a car last night on Paularino Avenue across from Paularino School. Apparently he wasn't hurt too badly and was mostly just shaken up.
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EL CAMINO CENTER

Ever see a slow motion demolition? Go visit the El Camino Center. It's like watching grass grow.
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CM PRESS # 377

RETURN TO REASON DAILY PILOT KILLS MONDAY PAPERS

In a column today, Waving Tom Johnson, the publisher of the Return to Reason Daily Pilot, announced, that as a cost cutting measure, the paper will no longer publish a paper copy of the, er, paper on Mondays. LINK

As an expert on newspapers (I played a reporter in a movie once), I have to agree with Johnson when he writes: " Fact is, local community newspapers seem to be the light at the end of the tunnel for the newspaper industry."

Although we often disagree with the positions taken by the Pilot, we'd hate to see the paper fold, and we're glad to see Johnson take action.

Apparently, 14 people in the community newspaper empire, that includes the Pilot, also lost their jobs. We were sorry to hear that. Over the years, we've had to lay off people from various businesses we've owned or been involved in, and it was always the worst and saddest part of the job.

On a positive note, we think the Pilot made a smart business decision recently when it linked to some community blogs--and especially to the CM PRESS. It doesn't cost the paper anything, and it gets lots of free content and increased traffic to the Pilot's electronic version.

However, there is a problem.

We think the Pilot needs to tweak its linkage policy a little, because it presently links to an anonymous blog--cmtruth--written by an intolerant bigot and hater who may be mentally ill (seriously), and whose only purpose appears to be to publish defamatory material and then hide behind the anonymity.

We're all for a robust and free press including blogs, but if people are afraid to say things without hiding, they probably shouldn't be saying them, and the Pilot shouldn't be involved in helping them spread their hatred.

And, yes, this could eventually lead to legal problems for the Pilot. It's a long held legal principle that a re-publisher of defamatory material is as liable for that material as the original publisher.

So, here's hoping the now Almost-Daily Pilot survives, but also that it acts responsibly and only links to blogs when the writers of those blogs don't hide under sheets while they try to harass and smear others with veiled threats and serial name calling.

Yes, Daily Pilot, let bloggers call names and act like asses if they want, but don't cloak their identities and don't stoke the psychoses of the mentally ill.

Let each blogger take responsibility for what he or she writes, just as the writers at the Pilot take responsibility for what they write, and let everyone--including law enforcement, and mental health professionals--see who the bloggers are.

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CM PRESS # 376

DOES IMMIGRATION STATUS MATTER?
(photo of Pacific Blvd., Huntington Park)

Joseph Serna, who writes for the Return to Reason Daily Pilot, writes on his blog about an illegal alien named Luis Adan Ramirez, who was just sentenced to prison for 15 years for killing a man in a drunken driving collision. LINK

A reader had apparently taken Serna to task for not giving the immigration status of Ramirez in an earlier report of the incident by Serna that appeared in the Return to Reason Daily Pilot.

Showing his true colors, Serna tells readers that he doesn't think the immigration status of Ramirez matters and he asks readers: "Why does Ramirez’s immigration status matter?"

Here's why it matters.

The person killed by drunk driving, illegal alien Ramirez would still be alive if Ramirez hadn't been in this country where he shouldn't have been. It's no more complicated than that.

The unspoken attitude of those who think like Serna is: "Hey, accidents happen. Why, citizens crash into each other all day long. What's the difference if this guy is illegal or not? What's the big deal with this accident?"

The big deal is that this accident would not have happened if Ramirez were not in the picture; and an innocent man would still be alive today.

Yes, we have citizen on citizen accidents, but why should we put up with such things caused by people who shouldn't even be here? Such accidents with illegal aliens are preventable. Just deport them. Let them drive drunk in their own countries and kill their own citizens.

And, why wasn't Ramirez sent back to his own country? He had two prior DUI's before he killed this man.

Had Ramirez been stopped at the border or deported once he got here, he would not have been on that street driving drunk at exactly the same time as the man he killed, and that man would be alive today.

Those who are trying to turn all of Costa Mesa into an illegal alien sanctuary city and to make the Westside into a new Huntington Park want citizens to consider illegal aliens as just the neighbors next door. That's the attitude we see being reflected by Serna and by the Return to Reason Daily Pilot.

Remember back during the Westside Revitalization meetings how the lefties and the Tan Klan kept trying to include illegal aliens as legitimate members of the community by calling them "stakeholders"?

And, remember how illegal aliens and their pals wanted to make the Westside into a new Huntington Park and how they spoke with a gleam in their eyes about W. 19th Street and Placentia Avenue being transformed into a new Pacific Boulevard (the main drag through Huntington Park)?

Citizens rejected that vision, but the Tan Klan is still at it.

THE TAN KLAN HATES EUROPEAN-AMERICANS AND WANTS TO DRIVE THEM OUT OF COSTA MESA

The Tan Klan and their shills are still at it in Costa Mesa.

They hate European-Americans and want to chase you out of Costa Mesa--starting with the Westside. That's why they don't want the industrial area on the Westside Bluffs reduced in size.

That's their primary defense against the area becoming as nice as other coastal communities.

That's why they don't want executive homes built on the Westside Bluffs. That's why they want a new job center on the Westside. That's why they want all the charities over there. That's why they don't want the cops to take illegal aliens to the ICE agent.

That's why they don't want the slums thinned out. They're terrified that the area will improve. They're afraid that the Westside will become gentrified.

Folks, before you think that Huntington Park and its Pacific Boulevard are good models for Costa Mesa, visit the place.

Is that what we want to turn Costa Mesa into? Huntington Park is Santa Ana on steroids.

We have our own Pacific here in Costa Mesa--the Pacific Ocean. Costa Mesa is not a sanctuary, landlocked, inner city such as Huntington Park. Costa Mesa is a coastal Orange County city, and because of this, it makes no sense to let it become an inner city.

The fact that Costa Mesa, today, has diverged so much from its traditional position of being the slightly less pretty sister of Newport Beach is not the natural state of affairs for our city.

Our downscale conditions are artificial. Those trying to keep Costa Mesa down are like those who try to hold back the ocean with a little wall of sand. The ocean of change is coming to Costa Mesa, dear friends, and it will pick up speed with your help.

Costa Mesa is going to find its natural level, once the artificial things that are keeping it down are removed.

And, as we've been writing for several years, the key to improving all of Costa Mesa is the Westside. Improve the Westside and the whole city will improve.

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THE TAN KLAN DIDN'T LIKE IT WHEN I WAS ON THE 3R COMMITTEE

The brown racists didn't like it when I was on the 3R Committee helping decide which charities got our tax money.

Do you know why?

It's because I wanted the Committee to not fund charities that discriminate based on race or ethnicity.

I tried to get the Committee to adopt President Kennedy's dictum against discrimination in the awarding of our money to charities:

"Simple justice requires that public funds, to which all taxpayers of all races [colors, and national origins] contribute, not be spent in any fashion which encourages, entrenches, subsidizes or results in racial [color or national origin] discrimination."

Why did the brown racists not want that fair statement used in giving out our tax money?

It's because they know that our tax money is now going to charities that do discriminate and which also give citizen money to illegal aliens.

If you like the crime, the gangs, the graffiti, the abandoned shopping carts, the drunk driving illegal aliens, the slums, the failing schools, the discrimination against European-Americans, then do nothing.

If, on the other hand, you want a nice, safe American city where you can raise your family and live the American dream, then you need to support political candidates who also want Costa Mesa to be the great coastal city it can be.

You need to support candidates who will not discriminate against you because of the color of your skin.
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Don't forget that you can find my essays on everything from genetics to sub-atomic particles all over the internet.
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CM PRESS # 375

DEMOLITION GOING SLOWLY AT EL CAMINO CENTER

(stock photo)

So far, the demolition of El Camino Center is going very slowly and we've never seen more than two people on site doing the demolition. Of course this may be because they're mitigating asbestos or doing similar work that must be done before the buildings can be torn down.

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MORE GANG GRAFFITI

There was more gang graffiti on the wall on Baker Street near the Fillmore Slum today. If you want to see it, it's about in the middle of the wall east of Coolidge and is painted in gold paint.

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NEW JOB CENTER?

If Costa Mesa has to open a new job center to meet Constitutional guidelines, Improvers say it should not be on the Westside and should not be in the north part of the city, except, perhaps, near South Coast Metro.

The Eastside has had so many loudmouths--including a former police chief--saying we should have a job center [so long as it was on the Westside], that putting one over by Dover Shores on the Costa Mesa side of the border or near the east end of 19th Street would be sweet and ironic justice.

Watch as the loud mouths, who have been trying to make the Westside into a new Huntington Park, suddenly come down with a case of NIMBYism if the city tries to put a job center near their homes.

The real problem may be the CMPD

The real problem with a new job center may be the same as the old problem.

In the past, we had both a job center and we had day workers loitering all over the city.

The reason we had that problem is that some police officers seemed unwilling to handle quality of life issues and simply wouldn't respond timely to such issues.

Sure, our ordinances did need some tweaking, but it was more than that. There was/is a passive resistance to responding to such calls. That's why the dispatch center logs are full of "unable to locate," or "gone when arrived," entries from officers who respond too late, or who claim they didn't see anything.

And, because these cops don't respond to these minor issues, those who don't respect our property rights or our laws are emboldened. The downward spiral then continues.

An example

It took almost exactly an hour for the CMPD to respond to a quality of life call made by a citizen the other day. During that hour there were at least ten CMPD officers and five patrol cars in the area just finishing up an earlier sexier call.

In fact, the watch commander had all his officers return to the station or do something else instead of simply handling the matter that was right in front of them--literally.

Police clique?

One Westside Improver suggested to the CM PRESS, that the CMPD may be being run by mid and low level officers--a clique within the department--because the problem of not responding to quality of life calls seems to continue no matter who is Chief.

Too many commuting cops?

The last time the CM PRESS checked, about 75% of Costa Mesa's cops have chosen not to live in our city but commute in. This statistic is a few years old, but we think the percentage of commuting cops may be higher now. We tried to get new statistics, but city hall refused to supply them.

When you don't live in a city, and you're just punching the time clock, you're less concerned about quality of life issues. Oh, you'll go after bank robbers all day long, but the smaller things--our municipal codes--forget it.

It's not your wife and kids who are walking past gang graffiti or gang members loitering on sidewalks. It's not your family that has to run a gauntlet of shopping carts or walk through trash. It's not your neighborhood that is full of the sound of vending truck horns or boom boxes.

It's not your neighborhood where there have been gang killings.

As the City Council considers the Orange ordinances, we hope that they are mindful of the above and that we don't just end up with business as usual.
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TO J, ah, CMTRUTH

Yes, we know you don't usually use the J, but....

You say you want a discussion, but that you can't have one because the CM PRESS doesn't take comments.

Tell you what.

Grow some spine and tell everyone your real name and we'll start taking your posts. We don't discuss things with cowards and white haters who hide under rocks. Come out from under your Tan Klan sheets and let everyone know who you are.

Afraid folks will be upset that you're spewing your hate on the taxpayer dime?
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DOING PR FOR US

Oh, J, ah, CM TRUTH, and his sissy pal, want you to know that you can find some of my essays at New Nation News. They usually appear at the bottom of that site, and there's also a long list of my insightful earlier essays there.

You can also find some of my stuff all over the internet and in some MENSA publications, and also at AMERICAN PATROL, at AMERICAN NATIONALIST UNION and, from time to time, you may even read some in the Return to Reason Daily Pilot.

Now, I want to be clear that I don't agree with everything in the Return to Reason Daily Pilot that also appears when my stuff appears, so don't tar me with a guilt by association brush.

And, if you want to cough up the bucks, you can buy my books at brick and mortar book stores or at Amazon. com. They sound like fiction, but there are hidden messages in them. Wink, wink.

My books and national essays don't have anything to do with Costa Mesa, but if you're interested in my musings about some of the bigger questions of existence, including things such as ending genocide, evolution, self-determination for distinct peoples, etc. that's where to look.

Be assured that a tiny part of the money received from my books will go into my world domination fund as I try to become king of the planet by taking over one almost coastal Orange County city at a time. At last check, the fund had grown to about $43.54.
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