Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Those of us who follow the CoronaVirus statistics coming out of Mainland China, have always suspected the Chinese are lying about their 650 death toll, in less than 30,000 cases. After all, why bother to quarantine Wuhan, a Los Angeles sized city, unless it were absolutely necessary. And why build 2 hospitals in ten days, unless you think they're going to soon be filled with dying patients. In an article entitled "Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths," the Taiwan...
Don't mess with a student driver. Wilshire Blvd was closed to Westbound traffic for about 3 hours Saturday afternoon, Feb. 8th, after two men were in a car accident that caused one vehicle to flip over. The vehicle that did not flip has "Primo Student Driver" painted on its side. The driver suffered neck and back injuries, and was brought to Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, directly across the street from the accident site. Yes, SMFD Paramedics loaded the injured man into an ambulance to...
In line with progressive densification, WS Communities, a synonym for NMS Properties, is upscaling your community. The company will tear down a 4 story mixed use building at 1543 7th Street, in order to replace it with 8 stories of apartments. The developer is proposing a 100-unit apartment building with 4,441 square feet of ground-floor retail space, according to Urbanize LA. The interesting thing is that they opened this particular building only 15 years ago, in 2005. Well, bigger is better,...
Time to migrate, gamers. According to a note on the App itself, Angry Birds is coming to an end and will no longer be supported. "All good things must pass, and at the end of March we will be winding down some aspects of Angry Birds Rio including the ingame shop and adverts. The game will also no longer be available in app stores from that date, but we will continue to provide player support for those who have the game installed on their devices until the end of 2020. We want to thank you for...
A five alarm fire broke out Wednesday at 11740 Wilshire Blvd damaged ten apartments, drawing 350 firemen and leaving tenants without access to the building. Thirteen people were injured, including two firefighters and two civilians in critical condition. 150 residents had to seek alternative accommodations. The 25-story apartment building was also the scene of a major fire in 2013. The fire began on the sixth floor at the Barrington Plaza complex around 8:37 a.m., according to a Los Angeles Fire...
A source who has been attending NTSB briefings for relatives of the Sunday, January 26, 2020 crash that took the lives of nine people, including basketball star Kobe Bryant, says that to a limited extent, the crash can be blamed on Kobe himself. This according to reports appearing in the LA Times. The source, who asked not to be named, says that air traffic voice recordings substantiate that Ara Zobayan, the pilot of the doomed helicopter was concerned about heavy fog over the Calabasas flight...
It's not exactly affordable housing. If you want the two story 5,000 square foot home on like, 50K square feet of land; it'll only cost you about as much as an F-135 Raptor. The press release from Coldwell Banker is below. If you're interested, drive by 808 Woodacres Rd. in Santa Monica, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom, 4,726-square-foot home. It's north of San Vicente. Bring your checkbook. Press release: Mary Beth Woods, a Coldwell Banker Global Luxury Property Specialist affiliated with the...
CNN settled with Nick Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student who had sued the news outlet for defamation. A CNN spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the claims had been settled. CNN paid Sandmann and his lawyers $750,000, small money to the network, but enough to put the young man through college. Attorney's fees are not public, but are customarily around one third of the recovery in such cases. In any defamation action against a news organization, a defendant can argue that it has a First...
12 new laws going into effect today include AB5, the anti rideshare amendment. The bill attempts to create stricter rules around independent contractors. The intent is for Uber and Lyft drivers to pay their drivers as employees. The rideshare companies say their drivers are still independent contractors, and they intend to spend $100 million or so to put the issue before voters in November. Several other new statutes will make it more safe and complex to drive. AB 1810 removes motorized scoote...
Santa Monica residents are circulating an online petition at Change.org, demanding that the City of Santa Monica perform annual assessments of its funding for social service agencies and programs. "City staff publicly admitted that they do not prepare annual assessments," the petition says. "This lack of transparency and accountability is unacceptable." Lacking a "realistic mechanism for annual assessments," Santa Monica "will continue to simply collect unverified, self-reported data from the...
The annual display of nativity scenes will return to Santa Monica this December, but they will be located on church property, rather than in a public park. Personally, I blame the Flying Spaghetti Monster. No, seriously. In 2015, the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Establishment clause barring the State from establishing a religion, requires that the City hold a lottery to determine which organizations would be allowed to erect nativity scenes in Palisades Park. Satanists won some choice booths,...
The BCC, LAPD and Dept of Fish and Game and other agencies participated in the 2 pm Tuesday raid of a purportedly illegal marijuana clinic on Tuesday afternoon, December 10th. At least 20 officers were seen lining up the rather genteel looking staff from Grace on a Pico Blvd sidewalk, handcuffed as they chatted with each other about holiday plans. "Dude. It's like, totally legal to sell weed in California. But you got to get the permits first, dude. And pay the taxes," explained one officer, as...
Has Griffith Park's famous mountain lion, P-22, developed a taste for human flesh? Experts say probably not, but something ate a homeless man who died in LA's Griffith Park. A hiker in Griffith Park discovered a dismembered head and other body parts. Authorities including a forensic team from the Los Angeles county Sheriff's department have concluded that a homeless man died and then was consumed by coyotes, bears and other wildlife. A hiker discovered dismembered human body parts in Los...
That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.--Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (1888). The impeachment hearings are in trouble, and that is now obvious to the world. The Democrats are looking for an honorable way out, and that will probably take the form of censuring the President for asking Ukraine's president to investigate Sen. Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. It was obvious when Congressman Adam Schiff went on MSNBC and considered the possibility that Democrats would settle for...
Ran Sikolsky and Jonathan Guttman were insulted and refused service due to their foreign ancestry at a Venice Starbucks, the two men allege in a complaint filed today at the Santa Monica courthouse. When Sikolsky and Guttman walked up to the Starbucks counter to order coffee and water, they were asked to pay 25 cents each for the water. They complied and ten minutes later they were given the coffee, but not the water. When they walked up to the Counter to ask for their water drinks, they were...
There is still no answer why medical waste appeared on Venice Beach on 11/10/2019. More than 100 needles and other medical supplies washed ashore on Venice beach Sunday morning, lifeguards said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department's lifeguard division made the unsettling discovery "along the shoreline south of the #VeniceBeach Pier," according to their twitter account. "At Approx. 11:30 AM today @lacolifeguards visualized a large amount of medical supplies along the shoreline South of the...
The City Council is desperate to turn this parking lot into 14 stories of expensive apartments to fund the City's Union Employee lavish pensions. A recent equipment failure turned the annual ice skating event called ice, into a 1000 or so square yards of water. So much for ice in Southern California. This from the publicist for the annual event: "Due to unforeseen mechanical issues, Ice at Santa Monica is temporarily closed and the Grand Opening Celebration scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 7, has...
No one outside the Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept is sure why. But authorities are routing traffic off Southbound PCH up the hill at Temescal canyon. As the area is being evacuated, sheriffs deputies are making people move up Pacific Coast Highway at Temescal Canyon Road, up Temescal to Sunset, then south on Sunset as far as Chautauqua, then up Chautauqua back down to PCH. At 9:50 am, the Sheriff's Dept reversed course, and started to direct traffic down to the PCH again. The PCH reopened, but one...
A fire that broke out around 1:30 am on Monday Morning near the Getty Center, burned at least 500 acres of pricey Westside land, from the 405 Freeway West into Brentwood. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded with trucks, men and water dropping helicopters. Residents were evacuated in a mandatory evacuation zone that extended West from the 405 freeway, to Chautauqua from Sunset to Mulholland. The evacuation area included 10,000 structures with a population of around 20,000 people, one fire...
I was the first one to break the story that Tyler Skaggs secret opioid addiction, is what killed him in a Texas hotel room early in the morning of July 1, 2019. The Angel's denied that the star pitcher had died of drug overdose, even going so far as to send us threat letter from a lawyer. Angels' lawyers told us to "cease and desist" from telling the truth. This from Angels PR person Marie Garvey to me on July 1, 2019: "Again, we do not know the cause of death and your headline says apparent dru...
There was a whole lot of smoke in the air Friday evening, after the Saddleridge Fire filled the air with smoke. This text alert from the city of Santa Monica Saturday morning: “SM Alert - Regional wildfire activity continues to cause unhealthy air quality in Santa Monica. All outdoor Community & Cultural Services activities and Farmers Markets will be suspended on Sat. 10/12/19. If you smell smoke, limit outdoor exposure. For more health tips visit http://ow.ly/R7ur50wJs4y” On Twitter, one wom...
If the cops can't find him, the Twitter Mob will. A man wearing a Day of the Dead Halloween mask, held up the Wells Fargo Bank on 9th Street and Montana Avenue at 9:45 am on Tuesday. Santa Monica Police say he is wanted on charges of bank robbery, assault and cultural appropriation. "It is important to recognize the inherent dignity of indigenous cultures," said the Santa Monica Police Department in a press release. "Use of a Day of the Dead Mask during a robbery can be a separate offense or an...
No people on earth excel in self flagellation better than American academics, as proven this week by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The prestigious ivy league college issued a press release saying that it had "retained the law firm Goodwin Procter to perform a thorough investigation of the facts surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's interactions with MIT." The question appears to be which particular foundations that donated money were actually connected to suicidal uber pervert Jeffrey...
Update 3:50 pm: The shelter in place order has been lifted. The suspect was NOT located. We understand this has been very stressful on the community and appreciate your patience and understanding. We will continue to provide updates should any additional information become available. -- tweet from @santamonicapd Update 2 pm: Police pull back the perimeter to North of Idaho Avenue. Residents South of Idaho may come and go as they please. Update, 1:35 I see no sign the police are breaking down...
Update, 9/3/19: Twenty victims have been recovered, including 11 females and 9 males, authorities told a press conference Tuesday. Of those victims, 16 had been recovered Monday. Approximately four to six victims were discovered in the wreckage but were unable to be recovered by nightfall. U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Monica Rochester said that the Coast Guard had decided to suspend search efforts, as "no additional signs of distress or debris has been witnessed." Rochester said that the 24-hour...
