Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A 70-year-old man, currently serving a 45-year sentence for murders and burglaries, was convicted of the first-degree 1972 murder of Helen Meyler in Hollywood. Harold Holman was known during the 1980s at the "Spider Man burglar" to law enforcement. He was originally arrested in 1975 after Los Angeles police observed him scale the outside of a 14-story apartment building and then move from balcony to balcony. After his incarceration for this burglary, he resumed his criminal activity. Me...
A bill, dubbed the First Amendment Defense Act, introduced on June 17 by Representative Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) would protect individuals who maintain that marriage is between a man and a woman from being penalized by the federal governments. It is being lambasted by House Democrats as "anti-LGBT Legislation." The bill is still in committee and has not been released to the House for a vote - but the accusations are already flying. "What the bill's supporters wish to sell as protecting religious...
A Christian group which was denied use of facilities at Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) today prevailed in a federal lawsuit that requires the school to ensure religious group have equal access going forward. Plaintiff's filed a Federal Complaint after CEF sought equal access to the school district's facilities for its after school Christian charter education programs. The school district wanted to charge rent, which CEF could not pay, forcing it to shut down its after-school...
A strike by 1,300 registered nurses begins today at Kaiser's Los Angeles hospital. The strike is scheduled to last 4 days and involves the nurses' call for improved staffing. California Nurses Association/National Nurses United claims Kaiser made profits of $1.9 billion last year, money which should be invested in hiring more nurses and "protect economic gains." In other words, they want a raise. "Kaiser spends millions of dollars advertising that Los Angeles Medical Center is a world class...
A report has come out regarding the resources spent promoting Islamophobia that would be humorous if it were not so disturbing. Produced as a joint project of the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender, the report is titled "Confronting Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact on the U.S. 2013-2015." According to Legal Insurrection, the document contains a lengthy list of groups that CAIR claims spread hate of Muslims, including Fox News, the Washington...
Pacific Gas and Electric announced today their plans to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in 2025. The power plant, located near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, started operation in 1985 with much protest. Several earthquake fault lines run under and near the plant. PG&E claims that it plans to replace the nuclear energy output with other types of renewable energy. "California's energy landscape is changing dramatically," PG&E wrote in a press release from CEO Tony Earley. "As...
Legislation being considered currently in the California State Assembly would sharply curtail the ability of religious colleges to direct the education of non-clerical students. Sponsored by state Senator Ricardo Lara, who identifies as part of the legislature's LGBT caucus, the bill, SB1146, would restrict religious exemptions currently given for federal Title IX regulations. These exemptions have until now applied to all students who attend religious colleges and allow colleges to require...
In another skirmish in the conflict between religious and gay rights, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution supporting natural marriage this week. Citing verses from the bible, the SBC Resolutions Committee created a document stating, in part, "Any law that directly contradicts natural law and biblical truth is an unjust law." The traditionalist Christian group did not go so far as to advocate violating US law, but did respectfully disagree with the 2015 decision made by the US...
The National Nurses United union, the largest nurses union in the country, is threatening one- to seven-day walkouts in eight hospitals in three states at the end of June. Cited are understaffing issues and consequent reduction in patient care. The states with scheduled walkouts are Minnesota, Massachusetts, and California. 1,300 registered nurses plan a four-day strike at Kaiser Permanente's flagship hospital, Los Angeles Medical Center. Short staffing and lack of adequate break time are the...
Bombshell Palin daughter Bristol Palin quietly married Medal of Honor recipient and former Marine Dakota Meyer, the father of her second child yesterday. Entertainment Tonight announced last night that the Dancing with the Stars TV star had married her former fiancee, Dakota Meyer. Palin's lawyer confirmed it.. She's 26 and he's 27. Proving that a girl who's kinda been around, can still find a nice guy to marry her! That is, at least if she's the daughter of a former Alaska Governor and 2008 VP...
On the very day California's new legislation takes effect allowing "assisted suicide," a clinic has opened offering to help kill those who want the "right to die," according to Legalinsurrection.com. Dr. Lonny Shavelson, proprietor of the new clinic, is intended to help those 'patients' who are unable to find a doctor or a doctor who will participate in the new law. The legislation requires would-be suicides, required to have a terminal diagnosis with six months or less of life, to submit three...
Thanks to our warmhearted members in the state's legislature, a law is now sitting on Governor Jerry Brown's desk that will open Obamacare Exchanges to the state's large illegal immigrant population. "If liberal Governor Jerry Brown signs the bill into law, California would become the first and only state in the nation to invite illegals to sign up for subsidized healthcare. And, it would tempt other so-called 'socially responsible' states to follow suit," says Dan Weber, president of the...
Michael Andrew Jace, an actor who portrayed a police office on the TV show, The Shield, was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of his wife. Jace fatally shot his wife, April Jace, in front of their two young sons at their Los Angeles home in May of 2014. Jace, now 53, believed that his wife was having an affair. At the time of the shooting, April Jace wanted a divorce. Jace waited in their home for April to come home and when she did, around 8 pm, he shot her...
Our representative to the United States Congress, the well-intentioned if currently off-base Ted Lieu, has joined with another Democrat from San Jose to urge California Attorney General Kamala Harris on in her inappropriate harassment of ExxonMobil. Harris is attempting to find evidence to prosecute ExxonMobil for failing to disclose to the public what the company knew about climate change. Nobody likes oil companies. They are considered "greedy" and "dirty" and their products, along with enabli...
When are we going to demand a common threshold of acceptable behavior for the right to walk among the well behaved? The murder conviction today for Edric Dashell Gross, 50, an African-American transient found guilty of strangling two Santa Monica women followed a six-year investigation into his guilt - followed by a five-year search for his person. Apparently, when you have no address and constantly drift through the dozens of municipalities in the moderate climate of Southern California, you...
On the day the legislation takes effect, a group opposing California's new assisted suicide law have filed a lawsuit seeking a restraining order against suicide facilitators, who may administer lethal drugs prescribed by physician to terminally ill patients. The lawsuit claims that the civil rights of the terminally ill are violated by the assisted suicide legislation under the Equal Protection clause. The lawsuit was filed by five physicians in Southern California and by the American Academy...
Tennis pro Maria Sharapova, was given a two year suspension from professional Tennis for blood doping, the star announced on her Facebook page. "Today with their decision of a two year suspension, the ITF tribunal unanimously concluded that what I did was not intentional," she said. Her lawyer, John Haggerty, said Sharapova took the substance after the date of the Australian Open. Wednesday's ruling said Sharapova did not intend to cheat, but bore "sole responsibility" and "very significant...
A woman who originally registered to vote in 1978 and has voted in every election since then was handed a provisional ballot instead of a regular ballot at a polling place in Santa Monica, California on Tuesday because she had changed her registration from Democrat to Republican. "They had me on their list as a Democrat still," Amanda Hill (not her real name) reported. "And they wouldn't give me a Republican ballot. Instead, I got handed this pink envelope to fill out and they put my ballot in...
An article republished in the Wall Street Journal from 2014 by Dr. Paul R. McHugh regarding transgenderism has sparked an Internet wave of both support and opposition. McHugh is a former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins and studied transgenderism for 40 years. In his article and his book, The Mind has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry, Dr. McHugh basically asserts that the current politically-correct indulgence of individuals claiming to be transgender is a mistake. Sex...
Clearly, not everyone in America is willing to accept transgender women as women, Caitlyn Jenner not withstanding. As senior sprinter Nattaphon "Ice" Wangyot became the first transgender student-athlete to compete in a high school state championship, Alaska Family Action president Jim Minnery and a dozen supporters of his conservative group gathered outside the state track meet to protest the 18-year-old sprinter. "We are here today as a voice from the community to ensure that female athletes ar...
