Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A Federal Jury today ordered the City of Santa Monica to pay $1.1 million in damages to Justin L. Palmer, who was pepper sprayed during his arrest on April 21, 2015. Police Lt. Saul Rodriguez, SMPD Spokesman, said that the Department had not yet decided whether to appeal Justin Palmer, 36, was at the public car-charging station at Virginia Avenue Park (map) on the evening of April 21 when he was approached by officers who said the park had closed at 11 p.m. Palmer refused to leave, according to...
After almost 18 months of construction, the new seismically safe California Incline opened to traffic on Thursday morning at 5 PM. The California Incline connects Ocean Avenue with PCH below. Since it closed in April of 2015, drivers have had to go through Santa Monica Canyon. This added 20 minutes to drives to Malibu or Pacific Palisades. Regular readers know that I'm very skeptical of anything the City does, but they really did need to improve the 1930's era California ramp, and reopening the...
A young man was fatally injured in a collision with a car Tuesday night, just after 9 pm. He was skateboarding on Ocean Park Blvd near 23rd Street at the time, which is very near the Fairview Branch library. Below are details to the yesterday's fatal accident, from Saul Rodriguez, SMPD Public Information Officer On August 30, 2016 at approximately 2107 hours, SMPD received 911 calls of a vehicle versus a pedestrian collision just south of 23rd St and Ocean Park Blvd. Officers responded to the...
Southern California Gas Company has announced that they are closing their Santa Monica storefront payment location after 40 years. The location at 1300 6th Street, allowed you to pay your bill "Low tech" way, i.e. with cash. It will close on November 1, 2016. Those who wish to pay their Gas Co. bills in cash in Santa Monica, may still do say at Patton's Pharmacy, 734 Montana Avenue; at Mike's Liquor Store, 2402 Wilshire Blvd, or at Ocean Park Pharmacy, 2731 Ocean Park Blvd. These days of...
For the third time the Santa Monica City Council has voted to close it's 100-year-old airport, Cloverfield. Residents living nearby hate the airport, despite the fact that there has never been a fatal accident there, because of the noise and smoke it produces. It is also rather close to homes. Don't be fooled. The Council's action is largely symbolic, because the Federal Aviation administration has a lease on the land which is restricted to aviation until at least 2023. Anyway, the city is...
In a Star Trek episode, the Enterprise discover a powerful alien who possesses an unknown painting by Leonardo da Vinci and an unknown work of music by Johannes Brahms. Kirk and Spock confront him and the man admits that, yes, he is both da Vinci and Brahms. He is in fact immortal and omni-powerful. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the move. His special forces units are preparing for another invasion of eastern Ukraine. In a recent piece in the Washington post, Charles...
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have duked it out for so long in the national consciousness, that they have entered our subconscious. It's an open secret that no one is excited with our choices, except perhaps fans of The Apprentice ("You're fired.") The Great Excommunicator will probably continue stumbling along, saying stuff that outrages the press and offends the groups that compose the Democratic party. Meanwhile, Clinton will continue to stumble along, with questions about her role in the...
I've known David Pascal for 40 years. He is now a Chiropractor focusing on sports medicine and neurologic injuries. David attended University High School in West LA, where he was the individual City Champion in Cross Country in 1975, and where I met him. After high school, he went to UCLA and then studied Chiropractic medicine. He is the Director at the Health Institute of North Carolina. Katinka Van Der Merwe say: "David Pascal changed my life five years ago. Meeting him showed me a different...
Dana Starfield writes for TV and movies. How's that for destiny in a name? She shared her experiences being a female screenwriter in the man's world that is Hollywood. Starfield spoke to an audience of teen girls, Sunday afternoon at Barnes and Noble on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The lecture was sponsored by School of Doodle. Their contact information is at the bottom of this page. "Don't worry about walking into a room, and everyone else there is a guy," she said. "Often, they...
Santa Monicans for Renters Rights, the local political machine that has run the nanny state that is Santa Monica since 1972, today declined to endorse the Land Use Voter Empowerment Initiative, or LUVE. LUVE requires that any variance from zoning restrictions, be put to a local vote. It would prevent the City from passing out construction variances to those who bribe it's well oiled machine, with money for low income housing or other such progressive programs. SMRR hold an annual convention....
From a City Press Release: The new California Incline is scheduled to reopen on Friday, September 2, 2016 in time for the Labor Day holiday weekend. The City originally planned to open the new structure to motorists and pedestrians prior to the Memorial Day weekend; however, the addition of the Idaho Trail Pedestrian Overcrossing to the CA Incline reconstruction project stretched the schedule to late summer. The official opening date is September 2. The CA Incline, an iconic symbol in Santa Moni...
It's not really their decision to make, since the Federal Aviation Administration has a permanent easement on 92% of the land. Nevertheless, the Santa Monica City Council approved a motion Tuesday night, to set a timeline for the closure of Santa Monica at Cloverfield airport. We will see what the Feds have to say about this! City residents object to the noise, air pollution, and occasional accidents produced by the airport. It is no secret that the airport is a Rich White mans club, populated b...
Senator Bernie Sanders walked out to address the convention looking like the Democratic nominee. The music playing was "We've all come to look for America" by Paul Simon. We all know the story. Starting out polling about 6%, the progressive Vermonter, who had been an independent most of his career, started the primary season polling around 6%. The white haired 72 year old ended the primary season in Santa Monica's Barker Hanger, with 1846 pledge delegates. He earned 70% of the youth vote and 43...
Actress Sarah Silverman, addressing the Democratic National Convention with Comedian/US Sen. Al Franken: Hi, I'm Al Franken, and I'm Sarah Silverman, and this past year I've been feeling the Bern! Relax, I put some cream on it. Franken: You see Sarah is the comedian and I'm the politician. Sarah Silverman: "Al, get out of my frame, (Laughter, Al Franken exits stage left)" As some of you know I support Bernie Sanders and the movement behind him. He's succeeded in so many ways, he's already...
Embattled DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz resigned her post as Chairwoman, just 24 hours before their Convention opens in Philadelphia. She sacrificed her job to "keep the peace" within the DNC, amid calls from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' campaign manager for someone to be "held accountable" for the anti-Sanders collusion proven by the leaked emails. "Going forward the best way for me to accomplish those goals [of winning the presidency for Hillary Clinton] is to step down as Party Chair at the...
The Sand Fire has burned an area the size of Manhattan. The 1,500 families who have been evacuated no doubt find this very real, and if they didn't subscribe to climate change theories in the past, they certainly do now. Like a Hollywood film about the Apocalypse, the huge fire North of Los Angeles has caused an exodus of people, death, destruction and hand wringing. I don't mean to make light of this tragedy, and I'm hardly a religious person. But even I see a few interesting similarities...
7/23: In Santa Monica and elsewhere in Los Angeles, the sunlight appears to be red. Particles arise into the atmosphere from a forest fire, sometimes traveling for miles. The particles produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of white light. The Sand Fire in Santa Clarita has now burned more than 20,000 acres. Update 4 PM: it's now cooler outside my apartment then inside in Santa Monica. This is because the cloud of smoke has completely obscured the sun. Temperatures have fallen...
Attorney Jonathan Stein has informed the City Manager Rick Cole, that he is filing 8,473 tort claims against the City of Santa Monica for running a "nuisance" at the airport. A government tort claim is a condition precedent to filing a class action lawsuit against the City. The jet noise and other pollution at the airport, Stein says, constitutes a nuisance and in one particular case filed by the City Manager himself, the jury found "jet-powered aircraft operations at Santa Monica Municipal...
Defeated Republican primary candidate Ted Cruz defended his decision not to endorse Donald Trump at the Republican national convention last night. The speech was widely booed by trump delegates, while 1000 cruise delegates sat quietly with their arms crossed. While the speech was not unprecedented, it was without precedent in modern times. Apparently Goldwater did the same thing in 1964. Cruz - a conservative firebrand who famously read "Green Eggs and Ham" to the Senate floor to avoid voting on...
" Donald Trump will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down. Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader." Melania Trump, addressing the RNC, July 18, 2016 Glenn Beck is a vocal voice behind the Never Trump movement. He wanted "Ted Cruz," a "true conservative, to be the Republican nominee. But he has just put forward an intriguing theory to explain how Michelle Obama's words ended up in Melania Trump's mouth: She was sabotaged, even "Rickrolled."...
The rest of California has declared "Drought Over," and put aside it's penalties and emergency measures. Not so the City of Low Flush Toilets. They like to tax and they like to spend, so like leftists everywhere, City Hall is maintaining controls. Water in California is very closely managed, with an extensive pipeline network to serve the most populated and dry areas of the state. Precipitation is limited, with the vast majority of rain and snowfall occurring in the winter months, in the...
Scott Shatford is not a property owner. He would rent several, perhaps as many as 5 apartments, by filling out forms with his own credit information. He would then use his own website and AIRBNB to rent out the apartments as vacation rentals. In a pre-arranged plea agreement, the Santa Monica City Attorney apparently got Shatford to plead guilty to violation of the City's new anti-vacation statute. It's the first conviction under the statute. Apartments in Santa Monica that might fetch 3500 a...
She knowingly sent mutliple e mails from her private e mail server that contained classified information while she was Secretary of State. You or I would go to jail for much less. Hillary Clinton's going to the White House instead. But you and I, we're not Clintons are we? Attorney General Loretta Lynch said last week that she would follow the recommendations from the FBI team investigating Clinton. So any chance of a criminal prosecution is now removed from the 2016 Presidential race. Comey sai...
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton met agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Saturday. When investigators meet with the "target defendant," it generally means their investigation is swiftly coming to a conclusion, legal experts say. The investigators were ready to meet her because they’ve met with everyone else on her staff, and now they know what questions to ask. Depending on Mrs. Clinton's responses, they will recommend to the prosecutors whether or not c...
Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with President Bill Clinton on a private plane. A source tipped off the local ABC TV station about the meeting, which reportedly lasted about 30 minutes, at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. President Clinton reportedly knew Lynch was arriving soon and waited to meet with her. So the meeting does not seem to be "Impromptu," but arranged. Lynch told reporters later that afternoon that their conversation was "primarily social and about our...
