CM PRESS # 992

TWO DUI CHECKPOINTS COMING UP

The CMPD will hold the first checkpoint on December 18th at Newport Boulevard and Flower Street, from 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM.

The second checkpoint will take place on December 29th at Santa Ana Avenue and 18th Street, from 6:00 PM to Midnight.

In addition, officers will be conducting extra DUI saturation patrols throughout the holiday season.

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COSTA MESA HIGH SCHOOL A PROBLEM SCHOOL

Below in black is an email that was just sent out to parents of students at Costa Mesa High School. Yes, today is December 15 and the email is dated December 17.
Here's what the CMHS email really means for those who want the unvarnished truth:

There are too many students at Costa Mesa High School who don't speak English. This is because the Costa Mesa City Council has failed to remove slums from this city that house thousands of illegal aliens who speak Spanish.

This failure to improve our city is reflected in a downward spiral of the city as American citizens move out of the city to cities where their English speaking children can achieve the American dream, and this failure on the part of the City Council also means that young families will pass Costa Mesa by and decide to live in South County, thus causing a further decline in schools, and the quality of life of Costa Mesa.

Welcome to Inner City Costa Mesa where crime is growing, schools are failing and the quality of life is dropping.

All it takes to truly improve Costa Mesa is three bright City Councilmembers who are able to see patterns and make corrections.

What is needed, for big starters, is for the Costa Mesa City Council to follow the lead of Stanton, which has embarked on a program to thin out its slums. Then it needs to stop funding charities that draw illegal aliens here and which then supports them so they can stay here.

Is that too difficult?

Here's the email from CMHS:

December 17, 2009


To the Parents/Guardians of Costa Mesa High School:


The purpose of this letter is to inform you that our school has been identified as a Year 1 Program Improvement (PI) school under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.
What is PI?


NCLB requires the state and district to review annually the academic progress of federally funded Title I schools and to identify schools in need of improvement. These schools are identified as PI schools after two consecutive years of not making adequate yearly progress (AYP). California determines AYP by considering the following four measures:
• The percentage of students scoring at the "proficient" or "advanced" level on the California
Standards Tests for English language arts and mathematics
• The percentage of students participating in those tests
• The graduation rate for high schools
• California's own accountability measurement of progress, the Academic Performance Index (API)

Why is our school identified as PI?

The reason our school continues in PI is because it did not achieve AYP in 2008-09. The AYP area(s)
that caused the identification are:
• English language arts
• Mathematics

The school's 2008-09 Accountability Progress Report may be obtained from the school or on the
California Department of Education (CDE) Web site at http://www.cde.ca.gov.

Public school choice: Parental right to request a transfer to a school that is not in PI
All parents/guardians of students attending a PI school have the right to request a transfer of their child(ren) to a non-PI district school with district-paid transportation.


For parents who select this option, the district will provide transportation to the non-PI school for as long as the home school continues to be identified as a PI school. If the home school exits PI by making AYP for two consecutive years, the stUdent can remain at the school; however, transportation will no longer be district-paid. If the demand for choice exceeds funds available, priority will be given to lowest achieving, low-income students.

If you are interested in transferring your child(ren) to a non-PI school in the district for the 2009-10 school year, please go to the NMUSD Education Center to complete an NCLB Parental Choice Application by January 29, 2010.

** 800 on the API = Meeting the state proficiency target for schools on the Academic Performance
Index
** Percentage targets vary by grade level spans.

What will the school do to address the problem of low achievement?

We are working closely with the district staff to revise our school plan to include:
• Strategies, policies, and practices that utilize scientifically-based research and have the greatest
likelihood of ensuring that all groups of students will meet the state's achievement targets
• High quality professional development for school staff that will lead to removing the school from
PI status
• Strategies to promote effective parental involvement in the school

What are the district and state doing to help the school?

Our district is working closely with the CDE to improve curriculum, instruction, and student performance.
The CDE provides information, special help, and access to resources for PI schools. PI schools will receive district and/or state technical assistance in:
• Analyzing various data reports for revising the school plan
• Strengthening core academic instruction
• Collaborating with parents to increase student academic achievement

How can parents become involved?

Research shows that strong parental involvement leads to student success at school. Parents interested
in partnering with the school are encouraged to contact the school for additional information regarding:
• Parental involvement policies
• School-parent compact
• Ongoing parent/community meetings
• Advisory committee/school site council meetings
• Parent volunteer opportunities


We will keep you updated and informed about opportunities to discuss plans for our school. If you have
questions, need additional information on how you can get involved in our school improvement efforts, or
would like to discuss the school's instructional program and PI status, please feel free to call me and/or
visit the school.


Sincerely,

Edward Wong, High School Principal
Aaron Peralta, Middle School Principal


Costa Mesa High School
Newport-Mesa Unified School District
2650 Fairview Rd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone: 714.424.8700
Fax: 714.424.8770












CITY TO DISCUSS AGREEMENT WITH COUNTY ON FAIRGROUNDS TODAY
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CM PRESS COMMENTS: Please indulge us as we idly speculate. Suppose you're the suits at the State level and you really want to sell the Fairgrounds. How would you react to this very public news of the City and County getting together to bid on the property?

Well, here's a clue about how high rollers (including the State suits) think: You'd be high fiving around the office about the City and County wanting to present an offer. Why? Because this increases the possibility of a bidding war in a down real estate market. When some of the international buyers hear about the County/City deal, they'll immediately up their bids or be prepared to do so once all the bids are opened and the auction begins.

One of the major problems for Costa Mesa in retaining the Fairgrounds is that it's not out in the boonies. It's right in the center of the city and is prime property. It's trophy land. This should bring in the big players with money to burn. Forget about how much we here locally think the land is worth. On the international stage, there is a different--much higher--view of what such land is worth.

This is not to say that the County and City shouldn't move forward with their plans. In fact, they just about have to do so if they want to have any hope at all of keeping the Fairgrounds as Fairgrounds.

However, and to repeat what we've written before, the best way to keep the Fairgrounds as Fairgrounds is if the State stops the sale process or if the bids are all too low or too full of contingencies.

Another possible scenario: Suppose the sale goes through to a private company.

Further suppose that company doesn't want to wait until it can elect three council members who will let it do whatever it wants to do with the land.

One thing it could do is work out a deal with the City whereby the private company will sell part of the Fairgrounds (25 acres ?+-) to the City at a low price so the City can keep certain core activities going at the Fairgrounds. In exchange, the company might ask that the City give its blessing for the development of the rest of the land to its highest and best uses.

Actually, the possible scenarios and permutations of scenarios are many and we're sure you've probably thought of a number of them yourself.
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ICE DETAINERS

Nov. 2009..........................10
Nov. 2008..........................18
Nov. 2007..........................33

SOURCE: CMPD
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LATEST EXAMPLE THAT LIFE IS A CONTINUUM


Octopuses seen carrying coconuts to make shelters. Link
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CM PRESS # 991

CITY WINS FREE SPEECH CASE
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LEECE AND FOLEY MEET WITH STATE OFFICIALS ON FAIRGROUNDS

Mayor Pro Tem Wendy Leece and Councilmember Katrina Foley met with state officials in Sacramento last Monday to try to get the state to stop the sale of the Fairgrounds.

The meeting included Scott Harvey, Chief Deputy Director, Department of General Services; Brent Jamison, State and Consumer Services Agency; and Leslie Lopez, Chief Counsel and Acting Agency Secretary.

Ms. Leece and Ms. Foley also made multiple contacts with area Legislative Offices requesting support for Assembly Bill 1590 sponsored by Assemblyman Jose Solorio and co-sponsored by Assemblyman Van Tran to stop the sale.

The Council Members called for members of the State Legislature to approve AB 1590 during the current Special Session of the Legislature so the sale can be stopped before the scheduled January 8, 2010 deadline for bids. Members of the public are encouraged to write or contact their State representatives and request their support of AB 1590. The Bill is expected to be voted on this month.

CM PRESS COMMENT: Ms. Leece and Ms. Foley did the right thing. However, we don't think it's going to help. Here's why:

A. There's money to be made by developing the Costa Mesa fairgrounds land to its highest and best use.

B. The center of gravity of OC has moved south. The real political power is now coming from South County, and the forces behind the Great Pork need to give that project legitimacy. Making it the OC Fairgrounds and Event Center will help with that goal.

We hope we're wrong and the sale is called off.

However, our instincts tell us that the sale effort will continue and the only chance of a sale not being consummated will be if the offers that are opened in January aren't what the state wants.

So, if the offers are too low and/or have too many contingencies, the state may decide not to sell the property. And, this is where the political pressure from Costa Mesa comes in. If, in fact, the offers are too low or are not clean, the state will have two choices: Ask for more bids or take the property off the market. Pressure from Costa Mesa may make the second choice seem better to the pols.
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IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND A FAMILY PLANNER (READ, LATE TERM ABORTIONIST) CONVINCED MARY THAT SHE WOULD HAVE A HAPPIER AND MORE PROSPEROUS LIFE WITHOUT A CHILD TO CARE FOR AND THAT SHE COULD ADOPT A PET DOG AS HER 'CHILD' TO MOTHER.
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WARMONGER OBAMA WANTS TO EXPAND DRONE STRIKES IN PAKISTAN
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CM PRESS # 990

WHAT HANUKKAH IS REALLY ABOUT

Hanukkah is about Jewish separatism and the revolt led by Judah Maccabee in about 160 B.C. against the blending and extinction of Jews by Antiochus IV Epiphanes who wanted all Jews to be assimilated in all ways into his kingdom and lose their separate Jewish identity.

A similar type of blending and assimilation is going on in the world today that is aimed at blending all distinct nations, distinct religions and distinct peoples together.
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LATEST FROM THE LHC
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CM PRESS # 899

INDIAN SCIENTISTS DETECT SIGNS OF LIFE ON THE MOON

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CM PRESS # 898

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW--7:33 pm, Friday, 12/11/09--There's major police activity--5 or 6 police cars--and a helicopter overhead, in the easternmost alley in the Fillmore-Coolidge slum. This is the alley that also backs up to homes on Garfield. We drove the scene but couldn't tell what was happening. We do know that this is the same alley where a man was shot and killed in a gang attack a couple of years ago. More when we get more info.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DUGGARS ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR 19th CHILD


They understand what life is about. Link



There's never a perfect time to have kids. Just do it. They are your future.

Don't let old age and death catch you childless or all your ancestors who led up to you being alive today will die when you do.
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ACTOR GENE BARRY DIES


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Trivia Alert: I once did a movie with Mr. Barry.
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PIERCING THE TORTILLA CURTAIN
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HATE FILLED JEWISH EXTREMISTS BURN MOSQUE AND HOLY BOOKS
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UPDATE: SPIRAL IN SKY ABOVE DENMARK HAS NOW BEEN REPORTED AS RUSSIAN ROCKET THAT MISFIRED
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JUSTICE DEPT. SUBPOENAED

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wants to know why charges were dropped against the New Black Panthers in their alleged intimidation of white voters.
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HEARD ABOUT THE HOME INVASION IN NEWPORT?
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Two of the perps escaped and may be in the area. They may be armed.

No descriptions have been published of the two outstanding perps.

Yesterday, I spotted two guys on a sidewalk who looked suspicious to me.

They looked out of place, both as to where they were standing and in being together. And, there were other subtle clues. They also looked lost.

Both had ex-con written all over them and moved with prison walks and had prison body language.

They were on a part of Bristol Street in Costa Mesa, close enough as the crow flies and logical enough as an escape route from the home invasion caper to pique my interest.

Did I call the cops? Nope. Why? Because if the cops want the public's help, they should start publishing descriptions of outstanding perps.

I'm not going to waste my time calling the cops and having them hassle a couple of guys, who may be completely innocent, unless I have more to go on than my hunch.

Descriptions in news reports, when the suspects are outstanding, will help protect the public and help solve crimes.
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CM PRESS # 897

AS YOU READ ABOUT PEOPLE RESIGNING FROM THE NON-PROFIT THAT WANTED TO BUY THE FAIRGROUNDS, YOU MAY RECALL THAT THE CM PRESS WROTE THE FOLLOWING WAY BACK IN AUGUST:

ORANGE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS--HOW REAL ESTATE FORTUNES ARE MADE!
(First publshed in slightly different form in CM PRESS # 771, August 4, 2009)

Maybe there really are some folks who want to buy the OC Fairgrounds and keep it as a fairgrounds forever. Well, it's possible. But possibility is not the issue. Probability is.

You see, there have to be some who see it as a chance to make many millions of dollars with very little risk.

Here, by the numbers, is how the gravy train can run for those who want to make a killing in real estate (in simplest terms). Note that the first step can be used both by those who really do want to keep it as a fairgrounds forever and by those who want to make a big profit:

1. Set up a non-profit corporation and buy the fairgrounds as fairgrounds,with fairgrounds zoning--the land is valued much less for such uses than for some other uses--so you'll get it for a song. Tell everyone who will listen that you intend to keep it as fairgrounds forever to help with your charitable causes and to serve Costa Mesa. You especially want to help the kids.

2. Once you own the fairgrounds, land bank it for a couple of years while servicing your debt (at least in part) by intensifying its present fairgrounds uses.

3. Work to elect a friendly Costa Mesa City Council.

4. Once you have a friendly City Council (you only need three of the five to be on board with you) claim that the fairgrounds is not bringing in the money you thought it would and you need a zoning change for a large portion of the land so you can maintain the remaining part as a reduced size fairgrounds in order to continue helping poor children who will all become gang members unless you help them with after school programs, etc.

5. Have your pals on the Costa Mesa City Council vote to change the zoning on a large part of the land to residential, office, retail or even a few institutional uses. (Laugh silently to yourself as you hear your Council stooges talking about Costa Mesa being a city with a heart, and how we have to help the children.)

6. Sell those rezoned parts of the land at the much higher price you'll get with the new zoning. In public, shed [crocodile] tears for the loss of the land but claim that, gee, you need the money to help the poor at risk children. Also say that the new smaller fairgrounds will be much better than the old larger version because you're going to bring in some new activities for children and families.

7. Manipulate public opinion by having your dimwitted surrogates (on the Council, in the blogosphere, and in the local press) claim that those who see what you're doing, and who speak out about it, hate children and especially poor brown children, and that unless you can proceed, these poor brown children will turn to gangs and terrorize the city.

8. Laugh as you go to the bank to count your money.
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HOW BAD ARE THINGS FOR THE DEAD TREE PRESS? WELL, AFTER 108 YEARS, THE TRADE PUB EDITOR AND PUBLISHER IS GOING OUT OF BIZ
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BLACK SUSPECT IN KILLING OF VENICE WOMAN PREGNANT WITH TWINS MIGHT BE LINKED TO OTHER INCIDENTS
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Violent crime is not an equal opportunity employer. Understand this for your own survival.
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CANADIAN NEWSPAPER CALLS FOR WORLDWIDE ONE CHILD POLICY
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Editors apparently don't understand nature at all and the struggle for survival that is part of evolution. Humans are not fungible.
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ASIAN CARP DNA IN LAKE MICHIGAN

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The real story: Nature doesn't sing kumbaya. It has set up a competition for the survival of the fittest DNA. If the native fish can't compete, they lose.

The same thing is happening in England where the non-native Gray Squirrel is taking over from the native Red Squirrel.

It's also happening right here in Costa Mesa in Fairview Park where so called non-native plants have taken over from so-called native plants and where the City is spending our money to try to grow so-called native plants (that will need constant human life-support and tax money infusions) where they are, by definition, no longer native since they have not been able to compete with the so-called non-native plants which need no human care at all to thrive and make a living, which shows, thereby, that they are the new natives.

Meanwhile, nature's eternal contest for the survival of the fittest continues. If you're into betting, put your money on nature, not on the efforts of man to stop the competition.

Nature doesn't care which DNA wins the race for survival. The winner is, by definition, the best and the fittest.

And, here's something else. Nature's eternal competition plays out among humans in many ways, including in the competition of nations, ideologies, philosophies and religions.
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GATES SURPRISED BY KARZI REMARK
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OPINION: THE U.S. PURSUES ITS GET OUT OF THE BURQAS AND GET INTO BIKINIS STRATEGY

The US government seems to be full of idiots. All they try to do is buy friends. That's what is going on in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Our "leaders" wrongly think that they can buy loyalty because these idiot leaders we keep throwing up in this country have a materialistic world view and believe that all other people have the same world view and can eventually be bought off.

When we leave Iraq and Afghanistan, the puppets we put in power will be overthrown. Why? Because the people in those countries are less motivated by wealth than they are by spirituality and we won't be able to stay there long enough to reeducate all the people to an American gold is good and religion is just for pretend worldview.
To transform those countries into an ersatz U.S. clone (metaphorically get the women out of Burqas and into Bikinis), the U.S. would have to destroy Islam.

This isn't likely to happen, even though the PR types in our government constantly try to push a watered down version of that religion as the "real" Islam. No one is buying it, and anyone who understands Islam knows why.

The fact is that Muslims believe there really is a God and that He wants all humans to be Muslims. If they are not Muslims, then they are to be destroyed.

In the U.S., where religion has mostly become a religion of man, and where God has become something of a do your own thing Hippie in the sky who tells humans to do whatever they want, there is a very basic misunderstanding of Islam, in that many of our people see Islam as being similar to these U.S. cafeteria views of religion. It's not.

Here's an example of the basic disconnect between U.S. views and Islamic views: Back when the Ayatollah Khomeini took over Iran, we called him crazy because we couldn't bribe him.

Khomeini was happy to just sit on a prayer mat and live in humble surroundings and be a combination of a Pope and a President with none of the ostentation.

This frustrated U.S. leaders who were used to people like the Shah who could be bought off with gold. So, again, in our leaders' eyes, Khomeini was crazy because he couldn't be bought off, and the Shah was not crazy because he could be bought off.

If the U.S. doesn't start getting brighter people as leaders, we're just going to see many more meaningless wars that we will lose in the long run of history and the deaths of many of our young people for absolutely nothing.
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PROMOTION DAY ARRIVES FOR WHITE FIREFIGHTERS
They fought anti-white discrimination and won. LINK
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CM PRESS # 896

STRANGE SPIRAL LIGHT OVER NORWAY

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MCCHRYSTAL SAYS WE'RE GOING TO WIN IN AFGHANISTAN
He joins a long line of generals who said similar things about Vietnam.
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ANOTHER COLLEGE WHITENESS STUDIES COURSE
(Nope, it's not about praising white achievement.)

This UCLA course is taught by an American born Filipina.
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Here's the brief description of the course:


"Understanding Whiteness in American History and Culture: Deconstructing White Privilege for the Reconstruction of an Anti-Racist White Identity (Online) "


And, here's the longer description:


"Eurocentric American history often masks the saliency of how the formation of Whiteness ultimately supports mechanisms of race and racism. This course outlines the historical development of Whiteness and critically analyzes the sociological results that stem from its birth. Segmented into three modules, the course provides a historical framework of the birth of Whiteness; explores Whiteness (namely, White Supremacy and White Privilege) and how they impact people of color and uphold racial hierarchy; and, in acknowledging that the relevance of history is inextricably tied to modern society, draws from liberatory, transformative, and emancipatory praxis, to engage in a REconstruction of anti-racist white racial identity. Throughout the course students are expected to critically engage in dialogue and identify and challenge their preconceived racial assumptions. [snip]"



One can almost imagine a Whites Anonymous approach:

"Hi, my name is Bob and I'm a white person, but I want to get over it."



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CM PRESS # 895

UGANDA DEBATES DEATH PENALTY FOR GAYS
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If the death penalty for being gay is made law, watch as Western nations--and especially the U.S.--are expected to take all of Uganda's gays (many of whom have AIDS) on a humanitarian basis.

Maybe this is what the Ugandan government expects to happen. They'll get rid of all their gays and all the medical expenses of treating people with AIDS.
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FROM THE CHURCH OF WHAT'S HAPPEN' NOW, BABY!
Episcopal Bishop says: "I have an obligation as the bishop of Los Angeles to do what my people call me to do . . . to support Mary Glasspool [a lesbian] and help her become confirmed."

He has an obligation to do what his "people" call him to do? How about God? Isn't religion about the Big Guy in the Sky, and not about man?
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GENERALS IN CHARGE OF US POLICY; NOT OBAMA?
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CROOKS IN AFGHANISTAN SAY THEY NEED MORE US MONEY
Watch as U.S. taxpayers get rolled like drunken sailors while Afghan politicians squirrel away our money in secret bank accounts.
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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL RETURNS TO COSTA MESA FAIRGROUNDS GREAT PORK
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PUNK THROWS TOMATOES AT SARAH PALIN, HITS COP INSTEAD AND GETS ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER
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MORE THAN 100 KILLED IN BAGHDAD BOMBINGS
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Thanks to the stupid war in Iraq started by George Bush, that country may soon become a real problem for us as it moves to Islamic extremism; that was kept in check by Saddam Hussein.
Isn't it time we had some intelligent politicians leading the US? Is it too much to expect to have leaders who can think things through to their logical conclusions?
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ATHEISTS LOOKING FOR MORE BELIEVERS IN NOT-BELIEVING
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CM PRESS # 894

BLACK ARMY MAJOR GETS 17 1/2 YEARS IN CORRUPTION CASE
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According to the WSJ, the Major ran a ring in which: "Almost every suspect comes from the same background: African-Americans who rose from childhood poverty to successful military careers."

The surprising thing in this WSJ article is that it actually wrote that the suspects are African-Americans.

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LEFTY GB RACE EQUALITY QUANGO IN TROUBLE OVER PLAN TO ENTRAP WHITES
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Similar groups with similar entrapment goals exist in the US.
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PASTA CONNECTION TO REOPEN DOWN HARBOR FROM ITS OLD LOCATION
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We wish Pasta Connection well, and hope it succeeds in a location that has seen constant
turnovers of tenants.

The main problem with its new location is that the parking is in the rear instead of in front and the parking lot has a closed-in feeling.
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ANOTHER WHITE COP KILLED BY A BLACK


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Understand the statistics of violent crime and play the odds to survive. Violent crime is not an equal opportunity employer.
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PEARL HARBOR

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CM PRESS # 893

YET ANOTHER HATE CRIME HOAX--BLACK PRETENDS TO BE A WHITE ON FACE BOOK AND MAKES THREATS AGAINST BLACKS--GETS CAUGHT

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The IRISH FREE STATE was born on this day in 1922.
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CM PRESS # 892

WARMONGERING NEOCONS WARMING UP TO OBAMA BECAUSE OF OBAMA'S TROOP SURGE (This crowd loves wars and the profits that can be made--so long as they and their kids don't have to go and die.)
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ASIAN STUDENTS UNDER ATTACK AT MAJORITY BLACK HIGH SCHOOL
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