Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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At a white house press briefing Sunday, Vice President Pence threatened an online broker who claimed to have 10,000,000 masks in a Los Angeles area warehouse. He said that if the broker didn't sell the masks to the Feds, they would us the Defense Appropriation act to seize them. He also said the USNS Mercy would go to Los Angeles. It would not serve coronavirus patients, but other emergencies. President Donald J. Trump said that he did not need to threaten companies to make masks or...
CVS Health has announced that it will fill 50,000 positions. Demand for CVS Counter services has greatly expanded due to the Coronavirus emergency. There are 3 CVS Health locations in Santa Monica. CVS Health said it plans to immediately fill 50,000 jobs across the U.S. to keep up with a demand for over-the-counter medicines, prescriptions, and other items during the coronavirus outbreak. In a news release, CVS called it "the most ambitious hiring drive in the company's history." The major...
The Sylmar Superior Courthouse is closed for three days after a public defender there tested positive for Covid-19, the Superior Court announced Sunday. Presiding Judge Kevin C. Brazile's office said that she had been caring for a relative with Coronavirus. The Sylmar courthouse, which handles juvenile delinquency cases exclusively, will reopen on Thursday, March 26, 2020, said the press release. The Superior Court announced Tuesday that it would reopen 36 of 38 courthouses, but only for urgent...
The worldwide attempt to control the recent worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 is an overreaction and a "fiasco in the making.” Scientist John Ioannidis. In most of the disaster movies we grew up with (think Jaws, for example), the town's politicians ignore the warnings from a scientist that the end is nigh. Making the disaster much worse. It may be politically incorrect. But before we return to the stone age, we need to consider the possibility that the emperor has no clothes. Some doctors are n...
Does this make any sense to you? Vons grocery company has decided that its shoppers must line up outside the store, so that only 10 or 50 are shopping inside at any one time. Trouble is, they are close enough to breath on each other. Gelson's has done likewise. We saw a Vons and a Pavilions (a division of Vons) in Santa Monica, where the shoppers were lined up within three feet of each other rather than the recommended six feet apart. Coronavirus is a serious thing, but has led to some seriously...
What if the Chinese Communist Party Politburo wanted to drop a bomb on the US, as retribution for its tariffs, economic retribution on China, and other offenses, real and imagined? Releasing Novel Coronavirus on the world would do exactly that. An examination of the timeline and progression of this crisis looks awfully suspicious. Consider the following progression of the worldwide Wuhan coronavirus pandemic: 1. In response to Trump trade tariffs, China warned us of a reprisal on May 29, 2019 -...
LA County Fire Department paramedics treated a patient in cardiac arrest Thursday. The patient died, and was later confirmed to have had Coronavirus. Fire Dept. personnel were thereby exposed to the virus. It's not in the press release, but I would speculate that the patient was in a senior facility. Paramedics in Santa Monica frequently respond to elder care facilities. And older folks are more susceptible to the Wuhan Coronavirus. LASD's press release follows: LACoFD COVID-19 Exposure On...
Sunday night, the first case of Coronavirus was diagnosed in Riverside County. The media said the patient was being treated at the Eisenhower med center in Rancho Mirage. However one local TV station reports that this person was actually at the Eisenhower medical center on Washington Blvd, in La Quinta." What's the difference? The subtle difference is that the illness apparently directly involved personnel at the BNP Tennis Open, now cancelled. "This is literally across the street from the India...
South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has suspended his presidential aspirations. He will announce tonight that he is dropping out of the race. He will deliver a speech on the importance of "Unity" The "also ran" candidates such as Buttigieg are under tremendous pressure from the party establishment to head off a disastrous Bernie Sanders nomination, by coalescing around Sen. Joe Biden, 77. At just 38, Buttigieg has a tremendous political future at least potentially. His youth and the fact...
California voters had an entire week to make it to the polls in the State's Super Tuesday primary. But many voters waited until the last day, Super Tuesday, to vote. And good for them, because many who voted early voted for candidates who dropped out of the running for US President: Amy Klobachar, Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer. Results from California indicate that Bernie Sanders won about 29% of the States primary vote. This puts the Democratic Socialist 7 points ahead of Biden, in the #2 slot...
"The poll workers are wonderful. But everyone is voting on these machines, for the first time. So there's a learning curve." Polly Lui, a voter at UCLA. One of our readers reports that he waited 4 hours to vote at UCLA, then gave up and went home. The LA County Recorder announced that Los Angeles County polling centers will not close before all voters who arrive before 8 pm, are allowed to vote. Here is the press release: Vote Centers Will Remain Open for All Voters Who Arrive Before 8 PM LOS...
President Donald Trump is also scheduled to hold a news conference at 6:30 p.m. to address coronavirus concerns in the U.S. Because we closed our borders to China earlier, the risk to us is very very low. We will do whatever we have to, as the disease spreads. The level in our country is very low. Just 15, we took in some from Japan because they're American citizens. These people are all getting better. Of the original 15 people, 8 of them have returned to their homes. In very good shape, so we...
The Santa Monica police say that a young man in a Jeep SUV, possibly high or drunk, drove his SUV off the top of the parking structure at 2nd Street and Colorado in Downtown Santa Monica. The unidentified 20-year-old may have been a marine from 29 Palms. The Fire Dept account of the incident, which is at bottom, differs from the SMPD story. "Three people were in the vehicle however, two were able to jump out prior to the vehicle driving off the top of the structure" says the Fire Dept., adding...
The Santa Monica Fire Dept says it rescued three victims from a car pinned against a brick wall at Pico and 12th Street. A Toyota Prius crashed agains parking meters, streetlights, trees, a fire hydrant and finally a building. The accident occurred before dawn on Sunday morning, Feb. 9th. It was the latest in a recent string of serious car crashes in Santa Monica. "The Santa Monica Police Department responded to the February 9th traffic collision in the area of 12th Street and Pico," writes Lt....
At a time when women fill universities and 72% of new jobs, When life has never been better for women or men in the United States of America, 30 or so congress women are seen wearing white in the house chamber. What exactly are they trying to say? Drawing an historical parallel to the suffragettes is the obvious answer. Trump made appeals not only to women but to African Americans. This as US President Donald J Trump delivers his third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress...
Sunday isn't simply the Superbowl and Groundhog day. It is International Palindrome Day, a day when the date reads the same backwards and forwards. The last Palindrome day was 909 years ago on November 11, 1111. Also known as 11/11/1111. Using the mm-dd-yyyy format, there are only 12 palindrome days in the entire 21st century. A Palindrome Day happens when the day's date can be read the same way backward and forward. The dates are similar to word palindromes in that they are symmetrical. 'BOB'...
Nine people killed in a helicopter crash in Malibu included basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi, said Alex Villanueva, chief of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept. Bryant's other daughters Capri, Natalia and wife Vanessa were not on board the doomed Sikorsky helicopter. LASD confirmed Kobe's daughter Gianna Maria Onore -- aka GiGi -- was also on board the helicopter and died in the crash. She was on the way to play a game. He said other victims of the crash could not be...
No one is sure when he arrived or where he is from. But the middle aged homeless man in Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, talks almost incessantly to an imaginary person. Early one morning last week, he punctuated his talk to an imaginary presence by raising his voice. "I'm a doctor? I'm a doctor! ha haha," he exclaimed over and over again, laughing at his own not so private joke. Nearby is a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf outlet, selling $5 cups of coffee and $10 sandwiches to hurried...
The Staples on Wilshire Blvd will be replaced by a Target store, according to a liquor license application sign currently displayed in the front window of Staples. There is also a Target store that recently opened on 11840 Santa Monica Blvd., in West LA. It specializes in clothing. Target Corporation is the eighth-largest retailer in the United States, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. Regular Target stores average 135,000 to 200,000 square feet in size. TargetExpress stores hover around...
Hundreds of local residents took to the streets of Los Angeles and Santa Monica on Saturday Jan. 4, 2020, protesting the escalating threats from the Trump administration to attack 52 targets in Iran. The protestors see the US stumbling into another Middle Eastern war. "I ordered Soleimani killed not to start a war, but to prevent one," said US President Donald J Trump in a speech. In demonstrations held in Pershing Square, protestors held up signs that said "No War or sanctions on Iran..." and...
Songs of Fantasy at the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica, located at 1008 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403. The 37th season of the Verdi Chorus continues with the Fox Singers , presented by the Verdi Chorus and the Sahm Family Foundation, in Songs of Fantasy for one night only at the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica on February 1, at 7:30pm. Tickets are available for purchase at www.verdichorus.org or by calling (800) 838-3006. 17 Border Crossings at The Broad Stage...
A uniformed airport employee leapt from the third level of Tom Bradley international terminal, falling to his death three stories below. Police have described him as a 27-year-old male LAX employee. Paramedics attempted to revive the man after his jump but he was pronounced dead on scene. The incident which occurred around 8:15 p.m. Sunday night, on a day of peak travel at the nation's busiest airport, shocked passengers in the crowded terminal. The Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT),...
A "King Tide:" is expected on January 10, 2020. At 8:13 am, times will measure 6.6 feet above the mean low low tide. (that's not a typo-there are two low tides on an average day, the lower one is called low low tide). On January 11th, at 8:53 am, the tides will be just a tad higher than the day before, at 6.67 feet. And on January 11th at 9:11 am, the high tides will measure 6.53 feet. On February 8 through 11th, Southern California beaches will see similarly high tides just after 9 am. If waves...
One thing is certain: Trump joins a small club including Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, as the most hated US Presidents ever while in office. "Trumps letter to Pelosi is filled with false and misleading facts," said CNN. "It accuses Nancy Pelosi of abusing her power, when it's Trump who abused his." "This is the most partisan impeachment ever," said FoxNews. "It is an impeachment designed to make Trump unelectable in 2020, rather than to remove him from...
On October 19 incident on the Santa Monica Pier resulted in pepper spray assaults all around. Pro and anti-trump demonstrators confronted each other. Santa Monica police announced a second arrest in the case Wednesday. At some point during the confrontation, two subjects began to spray the crowd with pepper/bear spray indiscriminately. David Dempsey was detained and arrested at the scene. He has plead not guilty. Police today identified Joseph Krongchana, 34, as a second suspect. On December 6,...
