Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Directly to the West of the Whole Foods Market on Lincoln and Rose lies a strip of land that looks like a sidewalk. A rather wide sidewalk, crowded with a dozen or so tents pitched, and homeless people strumming guitars, chatting or sleeping. The 50 or so homeless people living on the 7th Avenue strip are mostly unaware that they are the beneficiaries of a legally ambiguous situation. "It's legal to camp on this sidewalk" said Roger, a 26 year old man with glasses staying in a tent on the proper...
TV Screens went dark Monday night, February 18 (President's day) throughout Los Angeles, during the 6 o'clock news programs. No information about the outage was available on the company's website as of 7 pm. www.directv.com. It seemed as if a satellite had lost power or been knocked out of orbit. DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider based in El Segundo, California and is a subsidiary of AT&T. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital...
A small mudslide onto the California Ramp has closed the road to traffic on Tuesday morning. The City sent out the following general e mail at 7 am Tuesday morning: "The City of Santa Monica is responding to a traffic hazard. The California decline between Ocean and Pacific Coast Highway will be closed for an unknown duration of time. Use alternative routes. The incline from Pacific Coast Highway to Ocean Avenue is not affected at this time."...
Three members of one Santa Monica family were stabbed by another family member in their Sunset Park home on Thursday morning. Neighbors said the family's son had stabbed 3 other family members, killing his own mother. Thursday morning at about 6:23 AM, the Santa Monica Police Department responded to the 1200 block of Sunset Avenue regarding a 911 call with a male requesting assistance, , said Santa Monica Police Sergeant Roberto Villegas. Officers found three adults, two males and a female,...
Update: The MTA has confirmed this story. Social media reports say an apparently homeless man hijacked a female MTA bus driver in Westwood, and forced her to drive him to Santa Monica Monday night or very early Tuesday morning. The New Years Eve hijacking was finally ended by other passengers, the report said. Santa Monica police have not commented about the incident, saying that the arrest was handled by the Los Angeles Police Department, which has jurisdiction over MTA buses. The post on Next...
Two children have died in ICE custody in a month, after crossing the border illegally with a parent. It appears that both children, a 7 year old girl and an 8 year old boy, died of a particularly virulent strain of Influenza. This according to hospital records released under the Freedom of Information Act. According to the latest World Health Organization data published in 2017 Influenza and Pneumonia Deaths in Guatemala reached 8,091 or 10.49% of total deaths. Influenza is the third leading...
As a local pop band concludes a set, a wave lifts them into the audience, killing most of the band members and 222 others. While the Tsunami was only 4 feet high at the beach, it was enough to drag the band, its equipment and audience inland several hundred yards. The Tsunami occurred on Saturday night, and is believed to have been caused when a landslide, either underwater or above water, from the steep slopes of Mount Krakatau, slipped into the seas in the Sunda Straight near Borneo. It was...
Perhaps you are like me, and you have become lost in the whole Russia Collusion narrative. You don't know precisely how or why Russia, a country of $176 million with no real stake in the US political game, got a Manchurian candidate named Donald Trump elected in 2016. You don't know why the main stream media continues to blame Russia for Donald Trump and his policies, despite the fact that Russia remains an outsider under sanctions in the Western system. Robert Reich explained it this week in...
As the US Dollar rose abroad, and another approaching fork for Bitcoin remains, Bitcoin fell below $4000 for the first time in 15 months. The fork in Bitcoin Cash, which forked off from Bitcoin itself six months ago, appears to be frightening investors. This even though said fork does not affect Bitcoin directly. Plus there is the increasing determination by governments to crack down on what they clearly see as a threat to their own power. Beginning in 2018, there has been a large sell-off of...
The Crime Vons." That's what locals have taken to calling the Vons grocery store located on Broadway and Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica. It is widely understood that the least how to stop arresting people for petty theft of a sandwich or a case of beer. Privately, police say it is pointless to arrest people who have no ID, and do not appear in court. County jailers no longer hold suspects for a misdemeanor offense involving the theft of less than $900. So homeless people are simply warned...
As it became clear that Amazon would split it's "HQ2" between Arlington, Virginia and Long Island City, Queens, it also became clear that overcrowded Los Angeles has dodged a bullet. Los Angeles is already home to about 39,000 Amazon employees, reports the Los Angeles Times, who work in its film division in Culver City, in other film production facilities, in Whole Foods Markets and the like. Where on earth where these employees going to live? In the new $5000 a month one bedroom apartments...
It seems too coincidental, that just after the shooting in Thousand Oaks, the hills lit up in fire. Conspiracists are asking, are the two thousand Oaks tragedies linked insofar as the shooting perpetrator also started the fire? Police identified the gunman as Ian David Long, a 28-year-old US Marine Corps veteran. He was dead when officers entered the bar, Dean told reporters. He is believed to have killed himself. The shooter wore a black trench coat and eyeglasses and had a black beard,...
The wind changed direction and suddenly Santa Monica is filled with smoke. It is difficult to capture in Photos but here are a few which show the haze and the yellow sunlight. SMPD Alert: To accommodate anyone from out of Santa Monica, all enforcement of "Preferential Parking Zones" will be suspended until further notice. California Statewide Fire Summary 11/10 9 am Over 5,000 firefighters covering 690 fire engines, 79 dozers, 101 hand crews, 31 water tenders, 23 helicopters and numerous...
Greg Morena will join incumbents Sue Himmelrich and Kevin McKeown on the Santa Monica City Council. Morena, a restaurant owner, won election to be the newcomer on the Council. Pam O'Conner, who has been on the City Council since the Reagan administration, was somehow turned out by voters. She has voted for every large development project ever proposed in Santa Monica, and voters evidently finally understood that. Lori Brown lost her bid to be the only landlord on the Santa Monica Rent Control...
At long last, America's Democratic Resistance has a chance to go to the polls and vote against President Donald J. Trump. Arguments about Russian Collusion have disappeared from the National narrative, as have any references to Brett Kavanaugh, gun control or the US Supreme Court. Now, the rhetoric from the left is mostly that the President is a Divider in Chief, not a uniter like his immediate predecessor. Speaking of Barrack Obama, the former President has hit the campaign trail to exhort...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti headlined a rally at the Federal Building in Westwood, to protest the violence that unfolded Saturday morning at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. And the person most of the Democratic speakers blamed, needless to say, was--well, you can probably guess. The vigil which was organized in 24 hours, stood up against anti semitism and hate. Garcetti, Jewish himself, read the names and ages of all 11 victims, which included at least one holocaust survivor (he wa...
He was a friend to the friendless and a banker to the unbanked. Christopher Trigg was also the married father of 2 young girls. Trigg, 47, died on July 17th of an aggressive form of brain cancer. He had only been diagnosed in February, said one of his former employees. A memorial service was held in Calabasas on August 17, 2018. The store at 1705 Pico Blvd closed about 6 weeks later. The family did not originally intend to go public with the sad news. But when the bank (Banco Popular) found out...
"Participants made clear that they were concerned about their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them." A new report says that 80% of Americans have just had it with Political Correctness. It was based on a nationally representative poll with 8,000 respondents, 30 one-hour interviews, and six focus groups conducted from December 2017 to September 2018, by Pew...
Does this strike anyone else as unfair? James Wolfe pleads guilty to lying to the FBI about his relationship with Ali Watkins, a young Washington journalist, Ali Watkins. At the time, she covered national security in Congress, where she met Wolfe. He just plead guilty in Federal Court to lying to the FBI about the affair. She, on the other hand, received a promotion at the New York Times. Fair? Well, it's complicated. The former head of security for the Senate intelligence committee pleaded...
Res Ipsa Loquitor: The thing defines itself. Lisa Mirkowski, Jeff Flake and Susan Collins are on board with confirming judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court Friday. The mere fact that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has invoked cloture and moved the nomination to a vote is proof of that. This despite Democratic pleading for yet more investigations, more hearings and more delay. The White House — after reviewing interview reports from the FBI’s probe into Supreme Court nominee Bre...
There has been a subtle shift in the narrative from Mainstream news sources, on the Kavanaugh nomination. The guy who could soon be in a position to roll back Roe v. Wade, is about as clean as they come. But with one woman from his past set to be rolled out each week until the election, the MSM is playing his defeat as all but certain. Yes, it's not just Christine Blasey Ford anymore. There's another woman who says Kavanaugh wasn't nice to her. It seems Brett exposed himself at a Yale party in...
Santa Monica employs very well qualified police and fire personnel. It's an open secret that Santa Monica Police and Fire fighters are also the most overpaid first responders in the world. It's not unusual at all for a Policeman to make $100,000 a year. The chief of police makes more than $350,000 a year. 100 Santa Monica employees make more than $300,000 a year (!!!), and 20 of them are Police Officers. It will probably not surprise you to learn that "the Santa Monica Police Officers'...
Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell is scoring a lot of points on Christine Blasey Ford. Like the fact that she claimed she could not fly, but scuba dives all over the world—Tahiti, Hawaii. And ultimately flew to Washington. And contacted the Washington Post rather than Congress, her Congressman, the White House about her allegations. Judge Napalitano on Fox: "In my mind, she's very credible and Ms. Mitchell is actually helping her credibility by the gentle nature of her questioning. Kavanaugh has to c...
It’s increasingly clear Kavanaugh is out. But guess who’s next? Since his election, president Donald J Trump has consistently selected courses of action that would be in the face of the liberal mainstream media. In the Supreme Court nomination that he will announce on Monday, July 9, President Trump will again select a person condemned by the Los Angeles Times as not qualified for the position. Amy Coney Barrett refused to call the ADF racist, when challenged by Senator Al Franken. She spa...
Despite a severe housing shortage in California, Jon Dishotsky noticed that 60 percent of living spaces was not being used. Living rooms are not actually being lived in. Kitchens are empty most of the time. At the same time, he recalled his father, a Stanford psychology professor, renting rooms to students. From these observations, he came to an idea for a revolutionary new mode of housing, the community-based living experience. Dishotsky's startup, Starcity, takes underutilized buildings,...
