Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Power flows from the barrel of a rifle. -- Mao Tse Tung The military was going to have to eventually settle this dispute, between Maduro (Bad socialist), and Juan Guaido (Brave western oriented challenger, who has the backing of the Venezuelan courts and parliament). Maduro has invited in Russian and Cuban soldiers. He has kept out shipments of food from Brazil. He's a bad dude, and only guys with guns can remove him. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has called for a military uprising...
A suspect in a terror plot arrested by the FBI planned to bomb the 100 year old pier last summer. Domingo recently converted to Islam. He bought a bag of nails to put into an IED. Mark Steven Domingo, 26, of Reseda, a former U.S. Army infantryman with combat experience in Afghanistan, faces federal charges in a terrorist plot in which he planned to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) for the purpose of causing mass casualties. The complaint alleges that he intended to detonate his...
World War 1 and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire ended 101 years ago. Yet the event is fresh in the minds of 200,000 Los Angeles County Armenians, For the 5th year in a row, they shut down Wilshire Blvd, LA County's "Main Street," to mark a genocide they say cries out for more international recognition and compensation. Thousands of Armenians and others marched through Hollywood and the Mid-City area Wednesday to mark the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, again calling on Turkey --...
A young bobcat captured and collared a day before the Woolsey Fire started last November gave birth to four kittens recently - B-364, B-365. B-366 and B-367, said the National Park Service in Thousand Oaks, CA Friday 4/19. Using VHF radio-telemetry and GPS points from B-362's collar, biologists from Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area located the young female bobcat in a dense area of vegetation in a large residential backyard in Westlake Village. Researchers received permission...
4/25 The entire Santa Monica Police Department, and officers from the CHP, Torrance Police Department, and other jurisdictions attended the funeral of officer Rashad Riley. Riley drowned on Friday April 12, while swimming in the waters of Kauai. Some remembered Rashad from working with Explorer scouts. They remembered him as a kind man who was always putting the welfare of others ahead of his own. Santa Monica Resident Elaine Golden Gealer attended the service, and wrote the following: Who Was...
"Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them."--Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars is one of the most beloved of franchises. Fanboys (and Fangirls) still flock to watch and rewatch these movies forty plus years later. Yet, everytime a nerd (or at this point mainstreamer) rewatches this space saga, there's a pause as some of us are perplexed by how certain elements of the movie are recalled differently than how they appear in 2019 on the big, little, or little little (mobile...) screen. Many many people...
An LAPD motorcycle officer was thrown off his bike and into a fountain from a crash near USC. One of the vehicles that was involved appears to have been carrying the mayor of Inglewood. ABC News reports that their Newscopter was over the scene near an entrance to USC around 9 a.m. when first responders were seen treating a woman and her 4-year-old child, who was not hurt. The officer suffered substantial injuries but is in stable condition. "He was stationary in front of the water fountain and...